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Andrew Myers

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

I mean, we would just sort of put every expense on our credit card and we'd link it to Venmo so we could pay a lot of our early marketing reps using Venmo.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

And then you've raised capital.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

How much have you raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

So we raised a $700,000 seed round, which Kevin Ryan, who founded MongoDB and Guilt and has done a lot in the tech space in New York, actually led.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

And then we're just getting ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Probably in two or three weeks, we'll start going out for that Series A round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

No, we had quite a syndicate.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

It was a real mix of guys in both the hedge fund space and the HR space as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Kevin led, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Kevin led the round, though, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

No, I think at an early stage, you want both founders bought into a huge extent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

And I think the way Eric and I work, we really see it as both of our companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

And I think in a way, a lot of what he bet on was the dynamic between us and us being able to figure it out together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

And he's definitely a great resource if we're trying to talk through a decision we maybe disagree on or sort of want a really expert opinion on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

But I think that by and large, he's had a lot of confidence in our ability to navigate it and figure it out.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 578: Ripple Recruiting Passes 8,000 Ivy League Resumes With 15 Employers Paying $300/mo For Access with Ripple CEO Andrew Myers

Yeah.