Garg: Anaphora charged companies $20k to $25k annual recruiting subscriptions
Ooshma Garg · A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator · Sep 8, 2018 · at 3:37
Gobble founder Ooshma Garg describes the business model of Anaphora, her first startup created while at Stanford.
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“Like, these companies would write us 20,000 dollar, 25,000 dollar checks for annual subscriptions to my recruiting website, and it was a two-sided marketplace”
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