Rob Biederman

Managing Partner, Asymmetric Capital Partners · 1 appearance on the record.

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He co-founded freelance business talent marketplace HourlyNerd (now Catalant Technologies) in 2013 while at Harvard Business School, raising over $140 million before launching early-stage venture firm Asymmetric Capital Partners. He is also the co-author of the book Reimagining Work and serves as Chairman of Catalant.

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11 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 11 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 8 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 Rob 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
Biederman: HourlyNerd raised $750K seed at $3.75M cap
“It was about 20%, so we raised 750 K at a 3.75 million dollar cap.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 12:36 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman

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

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Bain and McKinsey forced clients into multi-million dollar bundled teams
“We hired Bain and McKinsey a bunch to help us with, ah, on-demand expertise, but the problem we found when we hired them was that they were so large and so bundled that we had to get a team of seven that would cost a few million dollars, and we rarely had need…”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 4:04 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
Insight
Biederman: Founder equity vesting is mandatory to prevent dead equity
“I'd say that's the, that's mandatory. There's no good reason not to have vesting equity for founders.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 8:14 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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Biederman: General Electric is one of HourlyNerd's largest customers
“GE, General Electric, is one of our largest customers.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 2:11 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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Biederman: HourlyNerd projects average $25,000 to $30,000
“The projects now are about 25, 30,000 dollars on average.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 2:54 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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Biederman: HourlyNerd pays 80% to 85% of project fees to consultants
“Every project is variable, but typically between 80 and 85% goes to the to the consultant.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 3:27 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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Biederman gave up $400k to $600k in PE compensation for HourlyNerd
“It was probably going to be sort of between four and 600,000.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 6:15 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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HourlyNerd has worked with 5,000 customers and 21,000 consultants
“We worked with about 5000 customers and we haven't got 21,000 nerds.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 9:12 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
Assertion Partly supported
Biederman: HourlyNerd has raised about $10M across three rounds
“So we've raised about ten million dollars over three rounds so far.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 11:17 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
Assertion Supported
Biederman: HourlyNerd raised $750K seed at $3.75M cap
“It was about 20%, so we raised 750 K at a 3.75 million dollar cap.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 12:36 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
Assertion Supported
Biederman: HourlyNerd raised $7.8M Series B in January 2015
“That was 7.8 million and we raised that in the fall of 20 14. That was, it closed in like January of 15.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 14:13 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biederman: HourlyNerd founders took no salary for first 18 months
“Starting a startup, we didn't even pay ourselves for the first 18 months.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 5:55 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman
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HourlyNerd generated $150,000 in revenue in 2013
“It was a 150,000 dollars in 2013.”
Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 ▶ 10:48 He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman

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He Was 26 And Gave Up a $400k+ Salary for HourlyNerd.com, EP 276: Rob Biederman Jun 11, 2016 8m
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