Workable
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38 statements about Workable, every show
Moraitakis: 75% of Workable customers have under 100 employees
“About three quarters of our customers are companies with fewer than hundred employees.”
Moraitakis: Workable's prior-year ARR run rate was just under $20M
“Ah, it was, ah, it was about 20, slightly below 20.”
Moraitakis: Workable is satisfied with 50% to 60% ARR growth
“So actually we're happy to be at 50, 60% growth. It's the whole picture of the PNL.”
Moraitakis: Workable raised $50 million in its last funding round
“We raised another fifty million last summer.”
Moraitakis: Workable is targeting acquisitions in recruitment marketing and community job sites
“Right now we'll, we're very interested in the recruiting marketing space and what's happening with job sites that deviate from traditional job sites and create communities and have you know, richer audiences in terms of the data, their intent and where you can…”
Moraitakis: Workable reaches nearly 1.5 million lifetime candidate hires
“About a million, actually, but now it must be nearly about a million and a half.
total hires.”
Moraitakis: Workable aims to replace recruiting agencies via flat SaaS pricing
“What we're trying to do is essentially to replace and automate some of what agencies do in the future.
and we felt that following their business model would not send the right message.”
Moraitakis: Workable avoids enterprise contracts to protect its SMB market lead
“To be honest with you, we're not so keenly interested in million dollar contracts because that would necessarily mean that the product would become less appealing to the smaller customers.
Right now, the way the market is we are the leading player with compani…”
Moraitakis: Workable NRR is over 100% for corporate, 85% for SMBs
“If you add expansion, the net revenue retention is above a hundred for annual corporate customers. For the monthly, the small ones, it's about 85%.”
Moraitakis: Workable CAC payback is 6-7 months SMB, 12-14 months enterprise
“Typically the payback is for the small customers is actually six or seven months, and for the bigger customers is 12 to 14.”
Moraitakis: Workable operates the world's most popular HR website with 25M uniques
“Right now, I think we have the most popular HR website in the world with about twenty five million uniques a year for HR professionals.”
Moraitakis: Workable operates with an 87% gross margin
“Depends then what margin, because we have margin of 87%.”
Moraitakis: Workable counts 6,000 customers, adding up to 500 monthly
“In nearly a hundred countries right now 6000 customers and adding something like four or 500 every month.”
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.”
Moraitakis: Workable has surpassed $20 million in annual recurring revenue
“The company's making someone like a little bit over twenty million a year.”
Moraitakis: Workable reached $10M in revenue without a sales team
“We got to ten million revenue without having a sales team.”
Moraitakis: Workable generates 23 million unique annual visitors via content
“And we do about twenty three million unique visitors a year on our content.”
Moraitakis: Workable created thousands of job description templates for inbound traffic
“We have every job description you can imagine. We have thousands of them. And right now in the beginning, we said, let's find the hundred most popular jobs out there.”
Moraitakis: Workable gained thousands of visits quickly from unoptimized WordPress posts
“We just really put the WordPress ad out there and just put them there with no organization or nothing. A few months later, we were getting thousands of hits of them.”
Moraitakis: 30% of Workable's monthly new business comes from returning customers
“About 30% of our new business every month It's returning customers, people who hired with us before they left and now they're hiring again and they're coming back.”
Moraitakis: Workable's net revenue retention is 101% to 102%
“Retention is over a hundred percent. It's about a 101, a 102.”
Moraitakis: Workable SMB customer retention reaches 100% after year one
“After year one even for the smaller customers, retention is a hundred percent.”
Moraitakis: Workable minimum customer LTV is $3,500 to $4,000
“Oh, minimum lifetime value is something like three and a half to 4000 dollars.”
Moraitakis: Workable operates at an LTV to CAC ratio of 6.5
“If you, if your LTV over a CAC is more than three, ours is six and a half.”
Moraitakis: Workable generated $14 million in ARR in late 2017
“We were 12 months ago, we're at 14.”
Moraitakis would reject a $100M to $150M acquisition offer for Workable
“I've been through this conversation so that I know the answer is no.”
Moraitakis: Founders should only sell if growth stalls or enthusiasm fades
“You would sell if you don't see yourself doing this five years from now, or you don't see it being much bigger five years from now. But if both of those are true then it's very difficult to sell.”
Legacy applicant tracking systems are built for HR, not managers
“And the name reveals the mentality. It's business process software to keep track of an arcane process that it's going to be done behind closed doors by the HR department. People don't want to touch this thing.”
Peripheral markets give tech founders a massive hiring advantage
“And the huge advantage when you are in a peripheral market like Greece is that if you have a network there and some reputation you probably have a huge advantage in in hiring. You know, hiring engineers in Greece, there's plenty of them. They're really good. T…”
Workable could not have hired its first 20 engineers in SF
“It, it's more the fact that the kind of people that came to join Workable in the beginning, you know, our first 20 engineers, We're the kind of engineers that would probably be working at Facebook or Google if we were in in San Francisco. We wouldn't be able t…”
Workable had 50% of its customers in the US before hiring there
“Essentially we had 50% of our customers in the United States, even before we had a single person there.”