David Windley
CEO & Executive Chairman, HootRecruit. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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David Windley is an executive and entrepreneur who served as President and CEO of IQTalent Partners and now leads HootRecruit. He previously served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Yahoo! and Fusion-io, held HR leadership roles at Microsoft and Intuit, and was Board Chair for SHRM.
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Everything David Windley said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Windley: Internal Executive Recruiting Teams Are More Efficient Than External Search
“All my tech companies that I worked for, we hired internal staff, even at executive recruiting, because it was just a more efficient, better model”
Windley: AI sourcing will eventually match or exceed human recruiting quality
“As AI gets better and better I think there will be a time where you can say that AI will be as good and maybe even better in quality.”
Windley: Traditional search firms charge a 33.3% fee per search
“And what you've pointed out is my theory of why there hasn't been as much change in this industry as in others, because it's such a good model for the hydrogen struggles, for the corn fairies, charging 33 and a third percent. Per search, right?”
Windley: Building a software startup inside a services firm drains P&L
“Because we were investing in a software startup within a. Professional services company, and it's a drain on the P and L right.”
Windley: Human-in-the-loop is the optimal AI agent architecture today
“We've designed our application to make sure the human is still in the loop, so the recruiter or the user, because of, for qualitative checks, right, and judgment calls, we believe that's the best state of design for AI applications and AI agents today”
Windley: Judgment-based processes will be the last AI agents automate
“Those processes where you still need human judgment will be the last ones that the AI agents will take over.”
Windley: Character, not competence, is the differentiator in executive hiring
“When you're hiring executives at one of these big companies, someone's going to be competent at all the things you need, right? You're hiring a CMO, you're hiring a chief technical, you're hiring a sales leader. They're going to be good at what they do. And th…”
Windley's recruiting business lost 75% of revenue at COVID-19 onset
“We dropped. 75% of the business. I put people on furlough, which was ended up being a good move instead of laying them off completely.”
Windley: Recruiting firm peaked at about $50M in revenue
“We peaked at about fifty million dollars in revenue.”
Windley: Recruiting firm sustained 30% CAGR from under $1M base
“We were growing at 30% a year. Kager was, you know, we started less than a million, like I said, and grew it, you know, from 20 14 through the teens.”
Windley: Largest client never exceeded 10% of recruiting revenue
“Over those 10 years, our largest customer never got over 10% of our total revenue, and so we would run like a 182 hundred customers live at a time, right?”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens David's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 WE LIVE TO BUILDLEDGER | CEO & Executive Chairman, HootRecruit | 1 | 12 | 100% 3/3 | full record on We Live to Build → |