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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 2)

SM: Did you raise money to start this venture? GG: We did, but we did it backwards. We poured in our life savings to start the company. We worked out of our house for 9 or 10 months and got the company to be profitable while taking minimal or no salaries.

Mashing Together A Job Search Engine: SimplyHired CEO Gautam Godhwani (Part 1)

There are plenty of job search engines out there. So what makes this one an interesting story? It’s their innovation (the first to use the new LinkedIn API), their ability to reach localized job markets (over 30,000 cities), and all while delivering a customized user experience. This is the direction that successful vertical search engines

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