This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got

filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other

insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

I had no money when I started the company.

It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.

We're a bit strapped.

We have like 22,000 customers.

With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time,

major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.

I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Raj Sheff.

He's the co-founder and CEO of Recruiter Box, the SaaS recruiting software

with over 2100 customers. He works with a team of over 35 people across two countries and has

bootstrapped the company over the past six years. He's also the author of Prepare a Hiring Guide

for Founders and First Time Managers. Raj, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yes, I am.

Thanks for having me.

You're welcome.

So you're based in San Francisco and you're bootstrapped.

How do you resist the urge, the funding urge?

So when we first started, you know, my co-founders and I were asking how we would raise

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