Contractors

“There is a shortage of contractors in the Bay Area. It is really hard to find them because, you know, cost of living is high, and contractors, they charge a lot here so a lot more people are doing DIY stuff”

“The other problem we have with getting, you know, engineers here is many jobs in, in the engineering organizations are managing contractors. Right. And so if you're some like, you know, super smart person, you know, whatever coming out of, you know, MIT comput…”

“We go after the ICPs in a state, and we get them using it. That bleeds us into the DOTs, project engineers, who are interested because they're better with it. You get in with the DOT district, they add more projects, it tumbles back over, and they say, well, t…”

“Today, the primary Driver for a lot of the venting is economic. It, the technician or the contractor's time is worth worth more than actually collecting the refrigerant and selling it into the reclamation market.”

“If you want to keep them, if you want to keep them with you and you want to make sure that they don't go and get a full-time job somewhere, you need to give them enough work.”

“We were working with 30,000 contractors across the US.”

“When you're under resourced, this happens internally at Zapier and it's happened virtually everywhere else I've been at. You try to find a temporary solution. Contractors, consultants, these band-aids for things that seemingly that you would describe as one of…”

“Around 35,000, depending, depending on the time of year that goes up and goes down, you know, November is on the latter part of the season. We are a seasonal business, but around 35,000 contractors using the platform at least once a month to mow one yard a mon…”

“Well, the, of the 35,000 contractors using the platform, only three to 4000 of them are on that lower tier of take rate. Most of them are on the higher tier.”

“When you hire a bunch of contractors, you typically get a bunch of task level thinkers. And that's not bad as long as you have a project and or an owner level thinker at the top able to manage that.”

“You know, 10 years from now, we want any contractor in the US and in the world to be able to do everything tied to their material supply chain through Kojo.”

“Oh, 1500.”

“That is correct. That is correct. Cause all the people that currently know how to do the work, they're currently busy. I mean, if they're currently taken by other companies and then now they're getting paid really, really good.”

“And now there's, you know, we, our team is 47 people. And so those people depend on our business for our livelihood. There's 32,000 contractors that depend on the platform to run their business, and there's 300,000 plus homeowners that depend on the platform.”

“Someone's going to build a billion dollar business and have one FTE as the founder and then a network of contractors.”

“And you can absolutely hire contractors to do task level stuff. It's harder to find folks who do project stuff, but you can find project level, but I don't know contractors who are like that owner level strategic thinkers, but I do know folks who will come on …”

“Because of the procurement rules, the way we bought software was this massive stack of specs and working with these huge contractors as opposed to an iterative process of buying software and problem solving and starting small and scaling up.”

“I think that you have to really treat interns, contractors, full-times with the same level of confidentiality as anything else in your business, which probably means just explaining it, right?”

“We do have a small number of DIY homeowners that that, that segment is growing rapidly, but the lion's share of our customer base and nearly all of our paying customers are contractors.”

“Right now we have about 7000 contractors across our platform with a 13,000 contractors and the pipeline that we didn't even have to actually start taking applications.”

“The number of contractors and people who have like a different kind of structure as a, you know, not somewhere between an employee and a contractor has grown, I think like 9.4 million in the past decade.”

“Management of contractors is significant time for you as a founder. That is not a free hire. It's sometimes is worse. Actually, it's more management time. For a contractor than a full-time employee.”