Hooman Radfar

Co-founder and CEO, Collective · 1 appearance on the record.

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Radfar previously co-founded and served as CEO of AddThis, a web sharing platform acquired by Oracle in 2016 for approximately $200 million. Today, he leads Collective, an automated financial platform for solopreneurs, and has invested in companies including Uber, Sweetgreen, and Hinge.

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1 prediction · 6 assertions · 1 opinion · 4 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 7 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 4 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Hooman argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Radfar: Solo operators represent 36% of the workforce

“And, you know, that's 36% of the workforce. So it's a fairly large percentage of the population.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 4:54 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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How they sound: not measured why? →

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What they said14 Episodes1

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Insight

Radfar: Founders should aim to be bought rather than actively sell

“You never really want to sell your company. You want your company to get bought.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 2:32 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Opinion

Radfar: Non-venture founders are in many ways more impressive than VC-backed founders

“And oftentimes I think there's a cognitive bias in the venture community to assume that venture backed founders are like the top one percent, right? Honestly, I think these founders are more impressive in many ways.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 6:01 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Supported

Radfar: Solo operators represent 36% of the workforce

“And, you know, that's 36% of the workforce. So it's a fairly large percentage of the population.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 4:54 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Radfar: Solo businesses scale from zero to $3M in a year

“The self-serve notion of some of these tools has led to this explosion of these businesses of one that can grow. And we, people are making like two, three million dollars a year and they go from zero, you know, maybe in a year. And I've seen it several times n…”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 7:37 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Radfar: Collective receives 50 times more applicants than members

“We have, you know, I would say like 50 times more applicants than we do members and we're growing very quickly.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 10:07 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Insight

Radfar: Economic downturns drive companies from W-2s to contract labor

“What do companies that have W two's do in periods of uncertainty? They shift to contract labor and that either increases the income of existing contractors, right? Cause they're already in business or creates opportunity for new contractors. That same phenomen…”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 13:37 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Insight

Radfar: Founders should raise quickly during market uncertainty due to multiple compression

“All things being equal, you want to err on the side of speed and you want to raise money at those periods of uncertainty quickly because there's a lot of unknown later.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 18:18 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Disclosure

Radfar: Collective is purposefully throttling growth to prioritize profitability

“So we actually are limiting our growth purposefully, which is tough in certain ways, but just to focus on being a little bit more profitable, get a little more progress.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 20:22 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Insight

Radfar: Investors now scrutinize whole business systems rather than just top-line growth

“It used to be one variable that people are looking at, Hey, what's your top line growth. They looked at the other parts of the system, but with less scrutiny. Now they're looking at the whole system.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 20:35 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Radfar: Collective aims for 2x to 3x top-line growth in 2023

“No, I think on the magnitude of like two to three times is what we think is pretty good. You know, cause we have to balance again that growth and profitability.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 23:26 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Disclosure

Radfar: Oracle partnered with AddThis three times before buying it

“Oracle had partnered with us across, I think, three different opportunities. And then they'd concluded as a result of those partnerships that it was more cost effective for them to, you know, buy us.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 2:46 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Supported

Radfar: US has 3.5M to 4M solo businesses earning $100K–$1M

“On the hundred K to the million side it's on the magnitude of I'd say 3.5 to four million.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 11:41 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Partly supported

Radfar: Collective raised a $7M seed round and $50M total

“The first seed round, I believe, was on the magnitude of seven million and we've raised fifty million cents.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 14:58 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Radfar: Collective has maintained per-customer unit profitability for 2 to 3 years

“On the unit basis. Absolutely. Yeah. So like on a per customer basis is what we do. Yeah. No, we're very profitable on per customer basis. We've been profitable per customer basis for two years, three years.”

Hooman Radfar Mar 1, 2023 ▶ 23:40 Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Collective Raises $50m to Take on Rippling, ZenBusiness. $1m MRR Next?	Mar 1, 2023	15m

Hooman Radfar

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