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70MilionJobs Seeks CTO/Co-Founder
70MillionJobs, the first for-profit recruitment platform for 70 million Americans with criminal records, is seeking a CTO/Co-Founder to help build the business.
We just completed YC (S17), and when we launched on HN a couple of weeks ago, we received nearly 2000 up votes, along with an incredible amount of great suggestions and support. (I can't tell you how personally gratifying it was.)
While we have a perfectly functioning MVP job board (70MillionJobs.com), this product does not come close to being a market fit for our very unique users. Despite that, we have several million applicants in our pipeline, and have begun working with some large, national employers.
We received a great response at Demo Day and Investor Day, and have nearly completed our Seed Round with some good investors.
Full Disclosure: getting involved may not be the most advisable career move: my first CTO learned that his wife had cancer shortly after our acceptance into YC. My second CTO's family was involved in a terrible auto accident just prior to our interview for the summer batch.
I need someone with whom the mission resonates (helping people who desperately could use a hand), as well as ready to own everything technical large and small. Significant equity and a living wage are on the table. I am leaning towards operating the business in Oakland, but that's negotiable.
Please contact me (richard@70millionjobs.com) or share with whomever you think is great. Help me build a big company and save a lot of lives along the way.
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- RandyRanderson 9y agoRichard, I can help you with your spelling...
- RBBronson123 9y ago??
- jsjohnst 9y agoYou misspelled your site name in the title of this post, and GP was rather rudely pointing it out.
- RBBronson123 9y agoThanks for pointing out my error. Do you feel better embarrassing me? Oh, and by the way, I checked one of your posts. You probably should learn the difference been it's and its before you open your mouth.
- shubhamjain 9y agoThe rudeness was detestable and I can understand why someone would feel enraged, but, please understand that the best way to deal with trolls is to either be polite or ignore them completely. Additionally, being a CEO of a YC company, everyone around you have higher expectations. Losing temper, especially in public, is a sure-shot way to dig a PR grave.
- RBBronson123 9y agoYou're absolutely right. Thanks
- claudiulodro 9y agoThat's a shame. This seems like a great service that could help a lot of people. I wish you the best of luck!
- RBBronson123 9y agothanks very much
- pryelluw 9y agoShared thus post to my network. Wish you best of luck.
- RBBronson123 9y agoI very much appreciate it
- arikr 9y agoBest of luck. This is something that will make people's lives better. Unsolicited advice, but I highly suggest following Elad Gil's posts both on what kind of CTO would be good (http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/02/hiring-first-5-engineers-what-sort-of.html http://blog.eladgil.com/2010/02/hiring-first-5-engineers-wha...) and also doing extremely intense reference checks (if it doesn't feel too thorough, you've not reference checked enough) - Elad has a good guide on that too. http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/03/reference-check-candidates.html http://blog.eladgil.com/2013/03/reference-check-candidates.h...
- RBBronson123 9y agoI will read. thanks
- hyuuu 9y agogood luck on your search and my condolences to your co founder.
- RBBronson123 9y agovery kind of you to say, thanks
- CattRobertson 9y agoSaving a lot of lives sounds pretensious.