Opinion
Bergen: Most companies claiming to use AI actually use human labor
“Well, that's the funny thing about AI. Everyone says they're doing AI and typically there's just a bunch of people behind the scenes.”
Insight
Bergen: Recruiting agencies bloat overhead by hiring sourcers instead of automating
“Well, something I've seen that's really interesting is all these agencies and recruiting firms, they want to hire like a ton of headcount. And I don't really get it because they want to hire all these sourcers and individuals to do it manually. And then like y…”
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Bergen: Waldo Labs has made a hire for every client worked with
“We've made a hire for every client we've worked with.”
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Bergen: 40% of first candidates submitted by Waldo Labs are hired
“40% of the first candidate that we submit to clients is hired.”
Disclosure
Waldo Labs charges a flat $7,000 monthly fee for three roles
“So our model is we just charge seven K a month, take on your top three priority roles at a time. That's it. No additional costs, no hidden fees, nothing.”
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Bergen: Waldo Labs clients achieve an average 22-day time to hire
“Their average time to hire is 22 days, but they'll typically have a handful of roles they want us to fill.”
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Bergen: 52% of Waldo Labs' total hires are diversity candidates
“And then 52% of our overall hires have actually been diversity candidates as well.”
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Bergen: Waldo Labs made over 50 hires across 15-20 startups YTD
“So year to date, we've made over 50 hires for at least 15 to 20 different startups, including current clients.”
Disclosure
Waldo Labs is entirely bootstrapped and just over one year old
“No, totally bootstrapped. Yeah. Just over a year old.”
Disclosure
Waldo Labs automates outreach but relies on manual backend candidate matching
“The matching is still manual. Like we do that on our end when a positive response comes in, we match them in the platform. But from there, like all the email outreach, everything in the platform after that is all automated.”
Disclosure
Waldo Labs retains about $40,000 in monthly net profit
“So the other 50, we keep in the bank. We also have like some third party tools and solutions that we invest in, but yeah, it's about 40 K a month that we have in, in like overall.”
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Waldo Labs maintains 12 to 15 regular active clients
“We have about 12 clients that we maintain regularly. It depends, 12 to 15.”
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Waldo Labs operates with one CTO and two offshore engineers
“One, the CTO co-founder, and then we have two offshore engineers as well that he was managing.”
