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Adrian Russo

Co-Founder and Developer, RecruitLocator. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Adrian Russo is an HR tech developer and talent executive who co-founded RecruitLocator, a SaaS open-web sourcing platform that identifies candidate profiles across the internet. Beyond building recruiting software, he has led talent acquisition and people operations for high-growth tech companies, including Swish Analytics and Caribou.

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1appearances
12statements
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Everything Adrian Russo said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Russo: SaaS revenue growth requires continuously expanding engineering teams
“If you have a SaaS product, you need to really keep growing your dev team. That's where the money's going to come from.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 10:48 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Recruit Locator beats LinkedIn Recruiter on search result count and relevancy
“We have LinkedIn search, which actually provides a more robust search than LinkedIn. We actually have a video out there where we beat, you know, LinkedIn recruiter search results by number and relevancy.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 3:02 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Russo: Recruit Locator Yields 10-15 Signups from 7,000 Facebook Clicks
“The conversion data is sometimes low. You know, we might get from those 7000 clicks you know, we might get, you know, 10, 15 people who would sign up, so it's really low. And then we look at that, and even with that amount, we might get, you know, five or six …”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 7:40 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
Russo: Almost Every Job Requires a Technical Background
“To get started in in programming because, you know, that's really where technology is going, you know, with everything now I think you have to have a technical background for almost every job, at least some kind of technical background.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 17:37 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Consulting provides the majority of Recruit Locator's revenue
“We do consulting. That's where you know, right now our majority of the revenue comes from there.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 10:13 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Russo: Recruitment market is moving entirely to ATS-integrated tools
“The whole market's going to, you know, integrated solutions. They want You know, recruiters want an integrated solution with their ATS.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 13:40 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Recruit Locator charges $250 annually with five free daily searches
“We have we have a free meal model where you know, people could sign up for free and try the tool with a limited number of searches. They get you know, five searches a day. And then for a year, we charge two 50.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 2:11 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Russo: Recruit Locator currently has 300 customers
“We have 300 right now.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 4:11 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Recruit Locator is completely bootstrapped with zero funding
“We haven't accepted any funding. You're bootstrapped. Yeah, completely.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 9:20 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Recruit Locator achieved profitability in 2017
“We're profitable. We were profitable in year two. So 2016, we're, we, 2017, we are, and 2018, we've grown even more.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 9:25 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Russo: Annual Contracts Temporarily Hide Churn for Early-Stage SaaS
“We have an annual subscription model, right? So we haven't, you know, it's been since July, so we're not gonna have any churn because people, you know, people have signed up for a year.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 12:43 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?
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Adrian Russo: Recruit Locator team consists of three people
“We have three people right now. Myself Joanne Burt, who's one of our partners, and Joseph de la Pena, who's one of the other developers.”
Adrian Russo Jan 2, 2020 ▶ 9:45 1622 Can You Help This Devleoper Figure Out Distribution in Recruiting Software Space?

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