Brett Adcock
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It's like insane.
And then they'll coax the guy out that they just brought to you and have him go to another job.
Yeah, they'll be like, they'll force you in this role so they get paid a commission.
So Vetteri is a connector.
Yeah, Connector.
Well, funny enough, we ended up selling to the world's largest recruiting company that does staffing.
But let's leave that for a minute.
But we basically started in 2012.
And the goal was like, how do we put like a lot of job seekers and a lot of employers on a platform, understand their preferences and match them at scale?
Like just like how to use algorithms.
At the time we were like, let's use AI, but it was basically like how do we use a lot of algorithms to figure out like what people want and then make matches.
So you can just like push of a button, connect the right folks and then make placements.
And then we ended up charging most of our revenue came from subscriptions from
Big companies like big banks or startups or tech companies basically looking for talent We started just in tech in the you in the US.
So At one point we had about I think about a little under 20 or so cities globally that we were operating in But most of it was tech Talent tech spaces, you know at that point.
Started in 2012 and then ended up selling the business in 2017 or 2018.
Right on.
Okay, so Vetteri was like a really tough.
I basically went like, I didn't have much money, went like fully all in with the business.
Went into debt at one point in 2015.