Justin Henshaw
Founder & CEO, GAGE. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Justin Henshaw is a Georgia-based serial entrepreneur and former U.S. Marine Corps infantryman who built a multi-business portfolio across food service, hospitality, and event entertainment under Henshaw Companies. He founded GAGE, a workforce platform and universal employment recognition system that provides hourly and shift workers with portable, verified performance records.
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Everything Justin Henshaw said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Henshaw: Gage is the first portable employment score for hourly workers
“And so Gage is the first universal employment scoring and recognition community for the shift and hourly workforce. Unlike every other system out there, Our system transfers with the employee. The data is owned by the employee.”
Henshaw: Gage drives Slack-style bottom-up adoption among hourly shift workers
“It's similar to the Slack model, right? Where, and I, and all I mean by that is that the employees are able to engage with the product without the employer participating in the beginning. If you, if an employee takes their gauge to a new place of business, the…”
Henshaw: Gage Gen 2 will replace third-party team messaging apps
“Even if they're using gauge actively, they're jumping from gauge into another messaging platform, right? So we're going to again, replace that other one with gauge with this new tools.”
Henshaw: Hourly workers are securing jobs and raises using Gage scores
“We already have, the biggest testament we have is we have examples within our community of people getting hired because of their gauge score, and we also have examples, very specific testimonials of people knowing that they got paid more because of their gauge…”
Henshaw: Hourly workers make up 60% of the US labor market
“So let's talk about shift and hourly workforce, for example. It's 60% of our entire labor market. Okay. Eighty million Americans are engaged in chip and hourly work.”
Henshaw: Gage's highest usage customer is a Chick-fil-A franchise
“Our highest usage customer right now is a Chick-fil-A”
Henshaw: Gage has early pilots in banking, healthcare, and fitness
“We've talked a lot about restaurants, but we're in banking right now. We have pilots lined up with a national bank. We have healthcare. We're in fitness.”
Henshaw claims Gage grew organically with zero marketing spend
“Again, all of this growth has been organic and just word of mouth. We didn't have any marketing dollars behind this, but all of these industry came, industries came to us because”
Henshaw: Gage raised half of $800k pre-seed led by Eagle Venture Fund
“So we launched a pre-seed fund or around, it was 800,000. We've, we have about half of that raised and we have a VC group out of Texas. They were our lead investors. They're called Eagle Venture Fund”
Henshaw: Gage beta reached 60 accounts, 3,000 users, and $60k revenue
“We launched early last year, and we went from zero to 60 business accounts, zero to 3000 users or so, and 60,000 dollars in revenue, all within that Beta and it was a beta.”
Henshaw: Gage had over 200 businesses join its beta waitlist
“We had over 200 businesses signed up for our waitlist, and they're still on the waitlist because we only got to 60.”
Henshaw: Gage beta required two to three weeks to onboard businesses
“It took two or three weeks to onboard a single business because we had to get files and onboard them and upload them, all that kind of stuff.”
Henshaw targets multi-unit operators with 50 to 150 employees per unit
“So like our ICP right now are multi-unit operators, particularly franchisees or even small franchisors between 50 to 150 employees per unit.”
Henshaw paused new Gage accounts during Gen 2 rebuild and Techstars
“I'm in a tech stars program right now and identifying our KPIs is very much a part of this journey. Right now, because we're rebuilding gen two, and we're not technically engaging in new accounts, we're focused on pilots. We're focused on getting people on the…”
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