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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

So, I mean, I think that, you know, at this point, the whole focus has been on user engagement and student engagement.

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's really what we've prioritized and targeted.

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

In terms of, you know, different meetings and different VCs, we've had quite a bit of inbound interest.

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 that's been sort of one source of kind of getting everything 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

And then we're also, you know, really strategically picking firms that have a really good reputation for working with companies who've sort of been in a similar stage.

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 for us,

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's all about finding those right partners.

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 ideally, ideally people who have experience, you know, really scaling smaller companies and who are willing, you know, not to just sort of follow into the round, but really, you know, take an active role as the lead investor.

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 we really want to want to pick the right firm 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

I think we definitely wouldn't.

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, well, I mean, I think the bottom line is, you know, you have to say what you're saying right now.

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

Well, I think if you sort of look at our track record and what we've been able to do on the student side of things, you know, there's absolutely no reason we can't have 100,000 of the top students in the country on our platform a year from now.

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 when you sort of look at the marketplace side of that, and, you know, we just basically started focusing 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

on revenue in terms of scaling our sales team.

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 just scaled our sales team from one to four in the last two weeks, basically.

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 revenue is a more recent focus.

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 what a lot of companies would say at this stage is don't- Let's ignore revenue, Andrew, for a second.

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 yeah, we're starting to see the Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and Duke numbers pour in, but we've got 8,000 just in the Ivy League.

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 have about 10K total on the platform just in the sort of early weeks of expansion.

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 mean, again, it just kind of depends on the package.