Ryan Buckley

I mean, with this one, it wasn't a hard sell because we were kind of a sexy startup, Silicon Valley startup, owned by private equity, profitable.

I threw all these keywords in there.

And then I said, I'm willing to pay top dollar.

Yeah.

Profitable, San Francisco, probably also Silicon Valley, mobile data, SaaS, enterprise.

And then I pitched myself a little bit.

And then Xenon, this hot private equity group, come in as the lead engineer, first engineer.

um hopefully lead to something full-time and i think for a lot of the really good talent on upwork that's very very attractive and uh and then when i posted that job you know i said i picked the highest paid like the expert category whatever like the most expensive

Cause I really wanted someone great.

A hundred percent, a hundred percent.

And I found this killer guy, awesome guy, still with the business lived in Columbia.

And, um,

paid him well.

He's still with the company.

I'm not going to say what his salary is, but I think well for Columbia, but below San Francisco prices.

And we've been ratcheting him up, but just an A-plus engineer.

We're lucky to have him.

I really feel lucky that he's still on the team.

No, he did.

He found me before.