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Raul Arora

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
182 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I remember, you know, I was a hiring manager in my previous company and the idea resonated with me so much because there were four key problems that we faced.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

The data in the recruitment was not centralized.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

It was scattered across multiple platforms.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And whenever I went back to my HR to ask for, hey, can you tell me about this candidate?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

it took them a lot of time just to search for the data.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Secondly, it wasn't very convenient to take interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

It was very annoying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I was, I used to facilitate one or two interviews every day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And, um, uh, you know, the first 10 minutes of every interview used to go into, you know, wasting into, uh, you know, preparing the runtime environment and waiting for the candidate to, you know,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

be hands-on and be up and ready with all the tooling.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

And that became really annoying.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So I was a hiring manager.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I thought that I need to find people like myself who are equally annoyed and are taking interviews every day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So an ideal customer profile for me back then was a hiring manager of a hyper-growth team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So I started finding people who are lookalikes just like me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Yeah, I did a simple search for companies who are hiring and then the companies had to be progressive.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

So I went to their Twitter handles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

I went to the LinkedIn, email them, email them and message them on Twitter.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

Some of them were, you know, kind enough to respond and they tried the product eventually one or two months down the line, they ended up onboarding the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Developer Recruiting SaaS Breaks $7k MRR in 6 Months, $6m Raise Next?

We are a nine people team right now.