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Adam Tishman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
205 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

You interview them, and then you just sort of work with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Everything is paid through TopTool, so it's super simple on the processing side.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And it's been great because they actually, you know, if that guy goes on vacation, they can sub someone else in for him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And it's been a great experience for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

So what they do is they bring candidates to you and you interview them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And so we held a couple interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

One was just with myself, who is not, you know, I'm not technical by background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

That was more just conversational.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Do we think we can work with this person?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Can we project manage him or her?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Is there, you know, is there a language barrier, which there is not?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

They actually pre-screen everyone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Oh, nice.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

they accept about 2% of applicants into their pool anyways.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And so, you know, they would say that that's sort of the first screen in the process.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

And then after we spoke with them, we had our other developer who helped build a lot of the website sort of have a more technical based interview with them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

We own all of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Oh, great.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 399: $1m+ Mattresses Sold using Toptal.com with Adam Tishman of HelixSleep

Okay.