Tepper avoids US hiring to save on health insurance and overhead
Sean Tepper · 40 - Empowering Investors: Navigating Value Investing with Tykr's Sean Tepper · Apr 15, 2025 · at 11:55
Sean Tepper, founder and CEO of Tykr, explains how the company protects SaaS gross margins by keeping full-time US payroll overhead minimal.
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“Our business model, actually, I'm one of the only guys from the states, otherwise I have a lot of contractors around the world that have helped, and with that, you're not paying your health insurance and social security and all that, and it just happened to work out.”
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