A pain point for Etsy sellers inspired Isaac Oates to create Justworks

Isaac Oates, Justworks, B2B, Hiring, Marketing, SaaS (software as a service)

Do you dread the process of hiring people because managing the payment process is such a huge headache?

Isaac Oates recognized that paint point and as a result he created Justworks to help entrepreneurs and businesses by giving them access to big-company benefits, automated payroll, HR tools and compliance support in an easy-to-use platform.

Six years later, Justworks is one of the fastest growing HR technology platforms with revenue in the tens of millions.

 

 

Isaac Oates

Justworks

Isaac Oates is the Founder of Justworks, which helps entrepreneurs and businesses by giving them access to big-company benefits, automated payroll, HR tools and compliance support in an easy-to-use platform.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. That was a little weird twitch that I just did, Isaac, with my eye. I thought I had four hours of sleep. It turns out I only had two hours and 15 minutes. And I know because my watch is set to tell me how much sleep I get because I’m kind of obsessed with sleep tracking lately. And the reason I got so little sleep is because my wife is here in New York City for a company event. She works for PagerDuty. And she asked me to come along with her for the dinner that they’re doing tonight, for the event they’re doing tomorrow morning and I said sure.

And so we came in on an overnight and the reason we came in on an overnight was I didn’t want to miss work. I had stuff I wanted to do. So I flew in, Isaac, overnight. I got in here at, what, like 5:30. Shaved, showered, and rented a Regus...

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