Ep. 075, A Monster Idea
Underserved
Andrew Gelina
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Our guest for Episode #075 is Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com and 14 other companies including most recently RoverTrophy.com. Jeff has always been ahead of his time, with boundless amounts of energy. This led him to create the world’s first job board in Monster, a revolutionary idea that spawned an entire industry. We discuss the resolve needed to champion your ideas, being the first URL on the radio, and when you know it is the right time to sell.
Links:
Jeff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-taylor-5212115a
A snapshot of the Monster Board in 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961111103115/http://www.monster.com/
When I Grow Up commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY1WoHkNGy4
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everyone to a special episode number 75 of Underserved. |
| 0:04.8 | With me in studio today is Jeff Taylor, a lifetime entrepreneur and founder of 15 companies |
| 0:10.6 | including Monster.com and most recently RoverTrophy.com. |
| 0:15.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to this week's edition of Underserved, the podcast for the rest of the tech industry. |
| 0:24.6 | Where we focus on stories of tech industry leaders, their insights and their lessons |
| 0:29.5 | learned. |
| 0:30.5 | And now your host Andrew Jalina. |
| 0:38.4 | Jeff, thank you so much for coming up and joining us today. |
| 0:41.4 | Andrew? |
| 0:42.4 | Excited to be here. |
| 0:43.4 | Excellent. |
| 0:44.4 | So way back in the day, you're actually a needum native, right? |
| 0:47.9 | Yep. |
| 0:48.9 | I moved here when I was seventh grade, matched it from the Midwest. |
| 0:51.4 | I was born in Aurora with just right outside Chicago in Illinois and I lived there until |
| 0:56.9 | I was nine. |
| 0:58.0 | My dad went to Rutgers in New Jersey and so I spent a couple years in university housing |
| 1:03.3 | down in Joysy and then he got a job at UMass Boston. |
| 1:08.0 | And so both my parents were in education. |
| 1:10.6 | My mom was a guidance counselor in the Needum school system. |
| 1:13.4 | My dad at UMass Boston and so my upbringing was really with an educational bent to what |
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