Indeed

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BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Software developer job postings on Indeed are rising
“The job levels, the job numbers of software developers on Indeed are going up.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 18, 2026 ▶ 5:09 Are We Screwed If AI Works? — With Andrew Ross Sorkin
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Citadel data shows software engineering job postings are rising on Indeed
“Citadel, that put out the fact that, like, people are talking about how software engineering is gonna be wiped out by this stuff, and meanwhile, the jobs on Indeed are going up.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 4:27 AI’s Unpopularity + Competing With ChatGPT — With Olivia Moore
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Software developer job postings on Indeed are rapidly outpacing total jobs
“The number of software developer jobs being posted on Indeed is far outpacing the total number of job posting in terms of overall in terms of percentage growth.”
Alex Kantrowitz Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:00:54 Anthropic vs. The Pentagon, Bloodbath at Block, The Citrini Selloff
LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported
Ravisankar: 2025 tech job postings have flattened compared to 2024
“If you zoom in a little bit, you would actually find the twenty-twenty-five job index is flattening relative to twenty-twenty-four, so the decline has stopped, but it's nowhere close to the peak, nowhere close to twenty-twenty-one, not even, like, close to twe…”
Vivek Ravisankar Nov 8, 2025 ▶ 2:12 ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
a16z Insight
Moore: A massive market opportunity exists for a blue-collar Indeed killer
“There's also, I think, room for a big kind of Indeed killer that takes these kind of blue collar jobs and makes them much easier to find and match and build a LinkedIn for those types of jobs as well, almost where there's like an identity layer and a reviews l…”
Olivia Moore Mar 23, 2023 ▶ 37:09 The Marketplace 100: A Glimpse Into the Future of Commerce
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Fanus Admits JobPaths Cannot Track Specific Job Placement Figures
“This is the problem with why I cannot answer that question, because each community has their own programs. They are running their own data. They're connecting with their own employers. They're just using my software. You're grading me as if I'm Indeed. I'm not…”
Jack Fanus Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 10:52 How JobPaths Hit $1.2m in Revenue Helping Ex-Vets Get resources and jobs
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Swiavich: Indeed blocked me seven times over commission sales job postings
“Indeed blocked me seven times. I created seven different companies that they just wiped me out. We don't accept commission sales jobs there.”
Andrey Swiavich Nov 17, 2022 ▶ 6:11 We call 30k cold leads per month and land 5% as customers. Here's the playbook
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jain: Bootstrapped Mobalt became Indeed's first-ever acquisition despite competing buyout offers
“And it might appear from a distance that, wow, bootstrap company, indeed, first server acquisition, mobile, awesome multiples. Great. A lot of other companies were in competitive space that time wanting to acquire us.”
Kshitij Jain Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 39:14 Kshitij Jain, Founder Joveo, a 2x founder on must-have skills for entrepreneurs
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Intermix Sources Leads by Scraping Job Boards for Amazon Redshift
“It turns out the word redshift is pretty not common in job descriptions. And so if you scrape indeed, for example, you can kind of figure out which companies are using it. So we have scrapers that go out to job boards and then they collect company names. And t…”
Paul Lappas Feb 18, 2020 ▶ 13:17 1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Moraitakis: Indeed finds candidates but lacks end-to-end recruiting workflow tools
“Well, Indeed is a job site and it helps you find candidates, but it doesn't help you manage the process, run your career pages, manage your interviews, manage your feedback.”
Nikos Moraitakis Nov 28, 2018 ▶ 4:06 1222 Workable CEO on Saying "No" to Acquisition Offers, $20m+ in ARR
Job board consolidation leaves employers with only a handful of vendors
“The consolidation of this of this job board industry is, is a little bit scary for employers though, because, you know, they really only have like a handful of people to choose from these days. So you know, the employers, they have to advertise either with, yo…”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 13:41 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Traditional job search platforms provide an inadequate, dehumanizing experience for candidates
“I mean, even today, in most cases, you are confronted when you go to those sites by a giant blank search box. You have to type something in and you'll get 3724 results, and they all look the same. What sort of, I mean, I'll get off my soapbox, but I am offende…”
Catherine Minshew Jun 26, 2017 ▶ 12:27 702: With $5k Left in Her Bank TheMuse Was Launched, 50m Visit Annually and 600 Companies Pay
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fuentes: Proven has not engaged in acquisition talks with Indeed
“That's false.”
Pablo Fuentes Sep 23, 2016 ▶ 12:57 EP 426: 1500 Customers and Profitable, $5.5M Raised with Pablo Fuentes of Proven.com
20VC Assertion Partly supported
USV's 2004 Fund Had Four Investments Each Return the Full Fund
“We made investments in Zynga, Twitter, Indeed, and Etsy within about a six month period. In our 2004 fund, each of those returned the fund.”
Brad Burnham Jul 13, 2016 ▶ 17:46 20VC: USV's Brad Burnham on Co-Founding USV with Fred Wilson, What They Look For In Potential Partners & Whether We Are Entering a Period of Consolidation or Expansion
20VC Disclosure
Charlie O'Donnell was present for USV's Indeed investment and first Etsy meeting
“Although I was there when we invested in indeed and there for the first meeting when we met Rob Kalin and at Etsy.”
Charlie O'Donnell Jun 8, 2015 ▶ 14:55 20 VC 043: How To Be A VC Analyst and Lessons From Union Square and First Round with Charlie O'Donnell, Founder @ Brooklyn Bridge Venture

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