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Perry Oostdam & Paul Smoczyk
Founders, Recruitee
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Tell us the story behind the company. What led you to start it?
Perry Oostdam & Paul Smoczyk: It was around 2012 when I met my co-founder Pawel online on a platform for entrepreneurs. After a couple of chats, we started our first company, GeoRun (a GPS-based gaming company), now eight years ago. As our team grew, we looked around for a handy recruiting tool. We struggled to find a simple and intuitive hiring tool, so we wound up building our own, at first, just for internal use. That was how Recruitee was created.
Gradually, several startups started to use our solution as well for their hiring. This made us realize that Recruitee could be turned into its own business, and might even be successful. A year later, we pivoted our business and got the whole team working on Recruitee exclusively.
A brief about the company and its products
Perry Oostdam...