Max Armbruster
Founder & CEO, Talkpush. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Max Armbruster is the founder and CEO of Talkpush, a conversational recruitment platform designed for high-volume hiring via messaging channels. Prior to Talkpush, he held roles at SAP and A.T. Kearney and co-founded several ventures.
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Everything Max Armbruster said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Recruiters prefer five minutes of candidate audio over reading traditional resumes
“And I bet if you asked any recruiter, you know what would you rather have, you know, a resume or would you rather be able to listen to five minutes of this candidate telling You about himself. I think most people would choose the latter option.”
Armbruster delayed marketing and sales to build customer success first
“No paid stuff so far. It's, you know, I'm going against the model, which is saying you build marketing before sales. And in fact, I'm going reverse. I'm doing customer, I build customer success team first, then now I'm building the sales team. And then when I'…”
Glassdoor's $1.2B valuation stems from mastering recurring candidate engagement
“No. Wow. It's such a great asset. I mean, it's the one sort of marketplace that figured out how to get people to come back to it all the time. So I think it's a wonderful asset.”
Job board consolidation leaves employers with only a handful of vendors
“The consolidation of this of this job board industry is, is a little bit scary for employers though, because, you know, they really only have like a handful of people to choose from these days. So you know, the employers, they have to advertise either with, yo…”
WhatsApp for desktop beats Slack because it is free and supports audio
“It does everything that Slack does, but for free. And it's got a small edge Over Slack, which is you can send audio notes to your people. That's huge.”
Talkpush passed $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue in April 2018
“Our revenue is about we passed the hundred K mark revenue wise monthly just this month.”
Talkpush software conducts up to 3,000 automated candidate interviews daily
“Our bots, our software interviews more than between one and 3000 candidates every day currently. Over a million last year.”
Talkpush achieves 5% to 10% net negative revenue churn
“Churn negative revenue churn, five, 10%. So we're growing our accounts and yeah, I regret we lost one or two logos last year or so, you know.”
Talkpush spends $11,000 to acquire enterprise customers worth $62,000 lifetime
“11,000 yeah, 11,000 CAC and an LTV of around 62 right now.”
Talkpush pivoted from voice calls to early Facebook Messenger recruitment bots
“We started the company. It was actually an IVR, so it was all voice. We would make phone calls and collect the voice for candidates. And then two years ago when Facebook opened its API for chatbots, we were one of the first recruitment chatbots to build on, on…”
Armbruster took years to hire engineering and customer success leaders
“It took me two years from that time to finding My head of engineering. It took me three years to find my head of customer success.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Max's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Talkpush | 1 | 13 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |