Using software to improve an antiquated business process
One thing that I haven’t really explored in these interviews is that it’s not just finding a pain but often finding new technology to address the pain. There’s a reason why the pain hadn’t been addressed in the past, and often it’s the technology wasn’t there to make it better.
Today’s guest is an example of that. He is a guy who saw the way that hiring was done and he said, “This is antiquated. It goes back to thousands of years” And he said, “There’s got to be a better way,” and he built it. He built software that enables a sure match to be made between a candidate and the company.
Today’s guest is Barend Raaff. His company is Harver. Harver offers matching technology that allows companies of all sizes to hire better.
Barend Raaff is the founder of Harver, which offers matching technology that allows companies of all sizes to hire better.
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I do interviews with real entrepreneurs for an audience of, get this, real entrepreneurs, not wannabes who just want to hear the beginning and ending of the story, but the ones who want the details of how a business was built.
And one of the things that I found having done over 1,500 interviews here on Mixergy is that the entrepreneurs who have the surest path of success, not the only path, but the surest path of success are the ones who find a problem, a real pain point, and then they start to address it. And I’ve talked about that in past interviews, so that’s not anything that’s brand new to you guys. But the other thing that I hadn’t really explored is that it’s not just finding a pain but often finding new technology to address the pain because if the pain existed, someone would’ve found it before. There’s a reason why it...
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