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Adam Robinson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
726 total appearances

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

We're working with just under 4,000 individually owned businesses in the United States, ranging across about 150 brands from Kia and Ford and Mercedes-Benz US to Anytime Fitness, Brightstar Home Healthcare and Sylvan Learning Centers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

That's 100 customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

They're not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

And the nuance of this business and why we largely have this market to ourselves is because the traditional HR tech vendor sells to what they expect to be a centralized role-specific HR team at corporate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

But in these decentralized networks, that doesn't exist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

And in fact, labor law keeps them from being able to help at all with the people side of the business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

And so

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Corporate or the OEM is basically a marketing or distribution partnership and then they push us out to the network and we contract individually with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

In most cases, the vast majority, the answer is no.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

We're solving their operator's number one issue and we're mitigating their legal liability on the co-employment side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

So they're happy to have us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

There are a few cases where we are paying distribution fees to large brands to get out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Well, that's, it's a great question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

I don't know that a franchise brand or, or OEM, one of our customers would, would pick us up just because we're so diversified.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

You know, they want, they don't want, you know, what would be 15,000 customers not in their industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

But I would say, you know, any, anybody looking to pick up a network of, of small business owners, main street businesses, you know, where it's huge revenue diversification, no customers, even a hundredth of a percent of the, of the revenue base is,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

Um, you know, that's, that's an attractive asset for the right company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 488: Hireology $26M Raised, $1.2M MRR, Helping 4000 Customers Hire More Effectively with Hireology CEO Adam Robinson

And, you know, I, I would expect that, you know, as, as we continue to grow, those opportunities will come up.