Porter Braswell
11 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 21, 2018 by Porter Braswell · across every show →
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Mar 21, 2018
Braswell: I quit Goldman Sachs before validating my startup idea
“But in terms of, you know, testing this out, I never really tested it out because I lived through it. I was so convicted with it and I like intimately understood what the pain points were. So You know, ignorance is bliss to some degree. And so I had this visio…”
Mar 21, 2018 negative
Braswell: Techstars NYC rejected us because "recruiting is not a challenge"
“We then actually applied to New York Techstars. And did not get in. And this was in December. Made it to the final round. They basically said, I don't understand diversity. Recruiting is not a big challenge. And you guys don't have anything. Like, I don't know…”
Mar 21, 2018
Braswell: I hold daily 45-minute coffee chats with different employees
“Now I have a coffee session where every morning I get coffee with a different employee for about 45 minutes cause I go get coffee anyway. So I might as well go with somebody and just sit down and just have a conversation. And it's in those one-on-one settings …”
Mar 21, 2018 positive
Mar 21, 2018
Braswell: We pre-sold Jopwell to employers before building software
“And I made this deck along with Ryan, my co-founder, and we just showed it to companies and said, this is what we're going to build, and if we build this, will you be a customer? And so we got really fortunate that when we made these phone calls, people answer…”
Mar 21, 2018 positive
Braswell: Jopwell personalizes platform communication tone by candidate seniority
“So what we've now done with our platform is that based on certain tags and triggers and whatnot. We speak to you in a different tone. So people When they interact with Jopwell, they're, they have different personas at Jopwell that they're interacting with. Not…”
Mar 21, 2018 neutral
Braswell: Managing culture becomes the CEO's primary job at 15 employees
“Focusing on the culture. It's the number one thing that like, you know, when you're four people, it don't really have to focus on it. It just, it's just, you know, it is what it is. And when you're 10 people, you really don't have to focus on it. At some point…”
Mar 21, 2018 positive
Mar 21, 2018
Braswell: Hiring startups must solve specific pain points beyond claiming quality
“If you're trying to build a hiring platform you have to be known for something. You have to have a particular You know, focus. You can't just have claim to have quality talent. You have to have, you have to be providing a real solution to a real problem that c…”
Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 neutral
Braswell: Hiring from early friend networks causes startup diversity debt
“But as you hire your friends and for friends, friends, and that's how companies scale. So when we think about like the difficulties of how companies kind of get to where they are, where there's a lack of diversity, we experienced it from a very extreme other s…”