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Max Armbruster

Founder & CEO, Talkpush · 1 appearance on the record.

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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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6 assertions · 4 opinions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 5 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

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Assertion Supported
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…”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 3:15 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering

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Everything Max Armbruster said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 2:55 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Disclosure
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'…”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 12:50 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Opinion
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 13:14 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Opinion
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…”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 13:41 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Opinion
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 15:00 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 4:00 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 5:38 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 10:49 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 12:11 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Supported
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…”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 3:15 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Talkpush generated $40,000 in monthly revenue one year prior
“I, we were at 40 K.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 6:05 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Disclosure
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.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 6:53 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering
Disclosure
Talkpush manages a globally distributed team with headcount concentrated in Asia
“We've got four offices already one in Manila, one in Delhi, one in Mexico, one in San Jose, Costa Rica, and then San Francisco. So where we have the most head counts is in Asia today.”
Max Armbruster Nov 7, 2018 ▶ 10:18 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering Nov 7, 2018 8m
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