Ezra Kagan
Founder and CEO, Hirize. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ezra Kagan (Esranur Kaygin) is the founder and CEO of Hirize, an AI-powered resume and document parsing API platform. Previously, she founded Recruit for U and served as managing partner at Sankonline.
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Everything Ezra Kagan said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Kagan: Market leader Sovren is horrible and fails at resume extraction
“Sovereign is horrible, and they are a market leader. And with horrible, I mean, they can't extract data, so they can't read non-Word or PDF resumes.”
Kagan: 30% of job candidates are rejected because parsers cannot read resumes
“So what happens is, is that 30% of candidates who apply for a job, they get rejected not based on their skills, Or their resume, but because the technology can't read their resume.”
Kagan: 80% of outsourced HR APIs run on outdated technology
“So the systems that we're all using today, they're using, if they're using an outsourced API, which is 80%, they're using outdated technology to extract data from resumes and then match it.”
Kagan: Hirize would have higher MRR if pricing was pre-negotiated in beta
“I started negotiating after after I launched, which I think we would have more MRR if we did it, if we, you know, yeah, you can't do everything perfect.”
Kagan: Building a company around an API creates irreversible vendor lock-in
“So after three months and you build on an API and you built your own company, whole company around that API, you can't go back.”
Kagan: Hirize hits $14K MRR and 12 customers in two months
“We just started two months ago and we have 12 customers. We have now around 14 K revenue, MRR.”
Kagan: Hirize raised $1M on a $10M SAFE valuation cap
“No, our valuation was ten million dollars and we did like one million round on safe.”
Kagan: Hirize has six to seven months of runway remaining
“So we have around like six, seven months to go.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ezra'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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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder and CEO, Hirize | 1 | 10 | — | full record on Top Founders → |