989 How This CEO Split His Company and Cleaned Cap Table At Same Time
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
As the Founder of 5 start-ups, John has made more mistakes than most. He’s currently the CEO of HireMojo, a SaaS Hiring Automation Platform with a RecruiterBot®. He also founded Accolo, an award-winning RPO and was VP of HR at BofA. He has a BS in Math from Notre Dame and was on the US National Rowing Team.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got |
| 0:06.9 | filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other |
| 0:16.1 | insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to 2.7 million. |
| 0:23.6 | I had no money when I started the company. |
| 0:25.6 | It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 0:29.6 | We're a bit strapped. |
| 0:30.6 | We have like 22,000 customers. |
| 0:33.6 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 0:48.6 | Hello, everybody. My guest today is John Younger, and he is the founder of over five startups. He has made more mistakes than |
| 0:56.4 | most of us could imagine. He's currently the CEO of Hire Mojo, a SaaS hiring automation platform |
| 1:01.9 | with a recruiter bot. He also founded Akalo, an award-winning pro, sorry, RPO and was VP of HR at Bank |
| 1:10.7 | of America. He has a BS in math from Notre Dame and was on of HR at Bank of America. |
| 1:11.9 | He has a BS in math from Notre Dame and was on the U.S. national rowing team. |
| 1:15.7 | All right. |
| 1:16.2 | John, are you ready to take us to the top? |
| 1:18.2 | Sure. |
| 1:18.9 | All right, quite a variety of things you've jumped into, which is great. |
| 1:22.5 | So what years were you VP of HR at Bank of America? |
| 1:26.1 | Because I remember, I'm guessing that's kind of when |
| 1:28.0 | this idea started festering. It was. It was from about 87 to 93, 94. And it was actually when I was |
| 1:37.3 | managing all the recruiting for two divisions about 16,000 employees that I asked the question, |
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