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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

And then I think

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

the other, you know, big pitch to investors is just, if you get a chance to try out our product and use our platform, it's sleek, it's elegant, it works in a much more intuitive way than a lot of the other stuff you'll see on the market.

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 because the filters are so tailored for college students, if you put it in front of a college recruiter, there's almost just this like aha moment.

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 so I think as you know, we really start to, you know, have even more of a tech team in place.

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

There's all sorts of different places we can take that, but

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

Both the core platform and just the raw student volume is definitely a big selling point.

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

You know, I think valuations always step by the market, 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

So I think that's just something we kind of want to see when it's your first time.

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 think you have a lot of confidence and I think it's definitely looking really good on that side of things.

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's just something we kind of want to see how it plays 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

I think, honestly, what I would say is that we just want to see where all the other term sheets come in and we'll kind of figure it out from there.

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'll probably raise $2 to $3 million in our 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

So I think that's actually in some ways, you know, not totally how we think about it.

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 think from our perspective, what we want is more than the highest valuation possible.

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

We want the, you know, the right partner and the right valuation.

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 think a lot of companies make the mistake in series A round of sort of grabbing, you know, the biggest valuation they can possibly get away with.

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 that makes it tough in the following rounds.

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 so I think for us, you know, we'll sort of see, obviously we'd love to give up as little of the company as possible, but it just really depends what the market's willing to pay.

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

Definitely.

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.