4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Originally a software engineer, and now serial entrepreneur, I love applying technology to solve real world problems, and like the best of ideas, Shine is an idea borne of frustration and real world experience of the recruitment process.
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0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm recording this here on April 5th. It's Sunday. Everyone's trying to survive the crisis. |
0:04.7 | Quick note to you guys, we are moving. You know, you used to delay these episodes by, you know, |
0:09.5 | four to eight months after we recorded them in terms of releasing them on the podcast. |
0:13.1 | We've changed that. A lot of these interviews you're going to hear over the next many months are |
0:16.1 | going to be ones we recorded only days prior. We think that's a smarter way to run the show. I've made the change. |
0:21.9 | So expect more urgent information coming out. Secondly, I am getting destroyed on iTunes reviews |
0:27.4 | by these people that say Nathan's rude. He's hard hitting. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Which, by the way, |
0:32.1 | I am. It's part of my style. It's what works. The problem is people that love that style never |
0:36.5 | take the time to go leave a five-star review. So I only get one-star reviews on iTunes. And right now there's a streak of one-star |
0:43.0 | reviews that is driving me crazy. It would mean the world to me, guys. If you're loving the show, |
0:47.5 | you love how direct I am, you like the style, if you go leave a review on iTunes now. If you do that and tweet it to me, text it to me, |
0:56.2 | email it to me, whatever you want, I'm going to reply with a very special surprise. I think |
1:00.0 | a lot of you guys will really like. It is heavy, heavy data oriented. All right. So I appreciate |
1:04.1 | that. Thanks, guys. Enjoy the show. |
1:07.0 | Launched his company, shining and helping people do more efficient interviews, specifically |
1:10.9 | HR teams, has about 55 companies right now paying 10 grand per year, so 45 grand a month in |
1:15.3 | revenue up from 30 grand a month just a year ago. |
1:17.7 | They just raised 350 million bucks in terms of funding, basically operating a break-even |
1:21.2 | up to that point. |
1:22.1 | Ten people in the UK. |
1:23.9 | Economics-wise, about 5% local turn annually, 10% expansion, so negative 5% net negative revenue |
1:29.6 | turn annually, spending about $3,500 to get a new customer. |
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