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As someone who has known Elliot from the Chicago scene for the last ~10 years, I have to push back on this. Elliot hustled his ass off doing his own thing, wor
by gregorymichael 10y ago
As someone who has known Elliot from the Chicago scene for the last ~10 years, I have to push back on this.
Elliot hustled his ass off doing his own thing, working recruiting for Groupon, working as one of the founding employees of DevBootcamp Chicago to get graduates gigs (and doing so with great success), and then back to his own recruiting before launching Human Predictions based on feedback from his clients and experiences.
He became, at least in my circles, the most trusted recruiter amongst developers. Many thought of him as more of an "agent" than a recruiter. Someone you could grab coffee with every six months who'd keep you in mind if the perfect gig came up. I referred friends to him all the time without concern that he'd spam them, hard-sell them, put them in whatever spot that was open just to reap the commission. He's always had the developer's interest in mind first and foremost.
I understand the sentiment that these stories can sometimes over-simplify the journey. Yes, he had the privilege of learning the family business at a young age. But it's not as if "having a dad that does X" makes it a trivial effort to launch a SaaS that does X. In Elliot's case, there was at least ten years of self-motivated hustle in-between.
- hiou 10y agoAbsolutely agree with you and my apologies if my comment made it out to sound like I felt like he did not work for what he has accomplished. > No problem with what he did and it sounds like he does a great job My comment was about the indiehackers title and link. It seems to be a pretty common occurrence for that site to greatly exaggerate the 0 to $X and this article is unfortunately no exception. Much respect to Elliot for all he has accomplished.
- csallen 10y agoIH founder here. Why do you think the title is exaggerated? He did start his business less than one year ago. Of course, any business depends on the skillset and knowledge that its founders started to build previous to its founding, but how do you put a start date on that? To build a company, you need business skills, a network, money, programming knowledge... for that you probably need professional experience... for that you need the ability to read and write... etc. Where do you draw the line? Everything always depends on what came before it. People get this. They aren't naive enough to believe that founders are born on day 1 of their companies with no previous life experience or knowledge of the world. I agree it's dishonest to refer to a 5-year-old business as "an overnight success" as often happens, but how exactly is it misleading to call a 1-year old-business a 1-year-old business?
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- rasz_pl 10y ago>recruiting for Groupon Groupon is a scam, not really something you would want to advertise.
- blazespin 10y agoyeah, well, tbf this sounds more like sales than saas.