ZipRecruiter

“Once you have children, the art of being a good parent and the art of being a good leader are the same, which is simply the ability to suppress your natural first reaction to think about the outcome you want to create.”

“If you're in a position where a lot of people's jobs got harder or morale is going to go down because you're not doing your job, then very short leash. But if you're in a position where we're mentoring and training you, you're just working on a single feature …”

“I think that as managers, there's simple rules you can apply, like, speak last. Let everybody get their words out, because once you start speaking, the conversation's over.”

“It's something that I've tried to actually invest a lot of time in with the employees at ZipRecruiter, so I make everybody tell the story of the work that they're doing in a way that a layperson could understand, because I feel like if you can't explain it to …”

“I love pointy people. Show me like someone who went super deep and became an expert at some niche area of business. I will hire that person 10 times out of 10. I don't want Michael Jordan. I want Dennis Rodman. I want someone with an elite skill at a single th…”

“Literally the first day he saved us a million dollars because they had not been running the ads. They said he made us a million dollars in a day. That time we were a company that was doing less than a hundred million in revenue a year when we hired him.”

“Because we actually had term sheets when we were pre-product, like unsolicited term sheets were dropped on us.”

“What's the last commercial you saw that you remember is a question that I ask our team internally all the time, because I am still dissatisfied with the level of memorability in the commercials that we produce.”

“Now we are like, we do high hundreds of millions and we'll next couple of years, we will be in the billions probably.”

“Honestly, I strongly recommend going public to every CEO and no one told me I should go public. They all try to talk me out of it.”

“When people say, what do you wish you'd done differently? I wish I'd raised that money sooner, knowing now, like, how much further we could have pushed our advantage had we had a larger war chest back then.”

“If you're in your job for a month and there is no momentum, we will intervene. We will not allow you to fail four months at ZipRecruiter when you join.”

“The two great gifts that I look for in directors and above only two things I really look for common sense and perspective. That's it. Common sense and perspective.”

“I think it's critically important to be famous for something. And my argument is most companies only get famous for one thing.”

“Once you have children, the art of being a good parent and the art of being a good leader are the same, which is the ability to suppress your natural first reaction to think about the outcome you want to create.”

“I think we would have been a better, more united team. Ironically, a more diverse team had we instituted those values sooner in our recruiting process, like literally talked about them in our job ads, literally made them part of the interview process, which we…”

“I don't want our brand to be famous for being a big advertiser. I want our brand to be famous for having an awesome product, and I think that's where we're going to be over the next couple years.”

“Since co-founding the company in 2010, more than 1.8 million employers have used ZipRecruiter to find their next great hire, and over five hundred million job applications have been submitted through the site.”