ZipRecruiter

company on 8 shows · 22 statements across 6 episodes · said 70 times in 14 episodes since 2016

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22 statements about ZipRecruiter, every show

Abuzeid: Why LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter fail the regulated healthcare hiring market.
“Horizontal marketplaces like LinkedIn and ZipRecruiter and so on, are not necessarily customized for healthcare. The reason that matters is there's, healthcare is a regulated industry. You have to, you know, the healthcare workers have licenses and certificati…”
Dr. Iman Abu Zayed May 1, 2025 ▶ 11:08 The strategic framework behind a $1.7 billion start-up | Masters of Scale
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Partly supported
Parr: ZipRecruiter raised record $60M Series A after bootstrapping
“ZipRecruiter was like, it had the largest Series A at the time, like five years ago ever. It was like a sixty million Series A, because they bootstrapped the business to many, many tens of millions in revenue.”
Sam Parr Apr 29, 2023 ▶ 1:01:57 Stanford Students Pitch Us Their Startups | $3500 Prize Money (#449)
20VC Assertion Supported
ZipRecruiter Has Processed Over 500 Million Job Applications Since 2010
“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.”
Harry Stebbings May 20, 2022 ▶ 0:32 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Ian Siegel: Inability to Explain Work Simply Indicates Lack of Understanding
“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 …”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 4:53 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Disclosure
Siegel: Dissatisfied with the memorability of ZipRecruiter's commercials
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 7:58 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegel: ZipRecruiter will be known for product excellence within two years
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 10:10 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Prediction Didn’t hold up
ZipRecruiter will reach billions in revenue within a couple of years
“Now we are like, we do high hundreds of millions and we'll next couple of years, we will be in the billions probably.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 12:43 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Ian Siegel: Most companies only ever get famous for one thing
“I think it's critically important to be famous for something. And my argument is most companies only get famous for one thing.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 15:16 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Siegel: ZipRecruiter intervenes if new hires lack momentum after one month
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 18:17 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Ian Siegel: New hire management leashes should depend on damage radius
“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 …”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 19:45 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Assertion Not publicly verifiable
ZipRecruiter's First Media Buyer Saved $1M on Day One
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 20:52 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Siegel: Niche Domain Specialists Are 100Xers, Not Just 10Xers
“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…”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 21:26 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Siegel: Common Sense and Perspective Are the Only Key Executive Traits
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 24:15 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Siegel: Good leadership and parenting require suppressing initial emotional reactions
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 25:36 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Siegel: Managers should speak last in meetings to avoid stifling discussion
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 27:09 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC What-if
Siegel: Early values-based hiring would have yielded a better, more diverse team
“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…”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 30:15 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Opinion
Siegel: Every CEO Should Take Their Company Public
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 40:38 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Disclosure
Siegel: ZipRecruiter Received Unsolicited Venture Capital Term Sheets Pre-Product
“Because we actually had term sheets when we were pre-product, like unsolicited term sheets were dropped on us.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 40:57 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC What-if
Siegel: ZipRecruiter Should Have Raised Venture Capital Sooner
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 20, 2022 ▶ 42:16 20VC: The Job of the CEO is Do As Little As Possible; How To Hire, What Questions To Ask, Why Pointy People are Always 100xers, How To Tell Great Stories Today & How Leaders Must Determine What To Delegate vs What To Control with Ian Siegel, Co-Founder an
20VC Insight
Ian Siegel: Good leadership and parenting require suppressing initial emotional reactions
“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.”
Ian Siegel May 4, 2022 ▶ 23:04 20VC: The Memo: Chris Sacca on Why We Are Breeding a Generation of Entitled Assholes, Harley Finkelstein on What Great Fatherhood Really Means, Deena Shakir on How Kids Make You a Better Investor and Anne Wojcicki on How Children Change Your Approach to R
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Sohn: ZipRecruiter trades at 5x to 6x run-rate revenue
“ZipRecruiter is probably trading at, you know, five, six times revenues run rate revenue.”
Evan Sohn Nov 4, 2021 ▶ 9:35 Recruiter.com $20m ARR at $40m Market Cap: Most Under-Priced Public SaaS Ever?
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Supported
Parr: ZipRecruiter Raised Series A at $300M Valuation and Makes Hundreds of Millions
“Their series A, they raised at a three hundred million dollar valuation, which unfortunately is considered small now, probably. But they . They're going to go public. Yeah, they're public size. And they make hundreds of millions of dollars revenue.”
Sam Parr May 21, 2021 ▶ 53:38 Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184

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