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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 9)
SM: Your goal with SimplyHired is to skip the referral network to the extent it is possible, and to replace it with a combination of services available on the web which SimplyHired brings together for the candidate? GG: Exactly. Over time a person’s social and professional affiliations will come online. People will use those connections
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 8)
SM: You chose to serve the candidates in your approach, but the money is with the employers. What is the value proposition of your strategy? GG: We recognized that employers would follow. We have tried o since the late summer of 2004 to move in that direction. We brought our service to the market in
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 7)
SM: In your opinion, from where you sat in the spring of 2004, who were the top technology players serving that market? GG: A natural place to start evaluating that market is to see where the dollars are coming. What is fascinating about the employment market is that besides employers and job seekers, which is
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 6)
SM: When did you start playing with SimplyHired? GG: After I left India Community Center I decided to take another trip back to India. I went through another 10 states. I went through 15 cities and a couple dozen villages. It was part of my continued effort to get to know India better. By the
Catching Up on Readings: Bootstrap Yourself!
Amidst the ocean of content that is coming at you, readers, I am sure you find yourselves overwhelmed. Here’s a recap of some articles from this site which you may have missed, but may be worth your time:
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 5)
SM: When did you actually open India Community Center? GG: India Community Center opened up in February of 2003. We did not know what to expect. We had a small membership fee which would never cover the cost of the center. We dreamed up various programs which we hoped would resonate. When we opened the
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 4)
SM: When did you return to the US? GG: I returned in the middle of 2001. My brother and I wanted to take on another project, but there was a distinct sense that we did not want to do another Internet startup or anything technology related. We started looking into all kinds of other projects.
Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 3)
SM: Your work at AtWeb concluded in 2000. What came next? GG: At that time I really had a sense that I wanted to do something else. For me personally, and for a lot of the folks who had experienced the run-up of the internet, there was confusion about what to do at that time.