Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with Amit Bhatia, Co-Founder and CEO of Datapeople, a recruiting intelligence platform that has raised $21 Million in funding.
Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:
- Diverse Background: Amit's journey from an investment banker and a neural net engineer to a founder in the recruiting tech space highlights a diverse set of experiences leading to his current venture.
- Market Revelation: Amit's realization about the massive, yet underoptimized recruiting space while working at Morgan Stanley provided the impetus for founding Datapeople.
- Bootstrap Beginnings: The initial four years of bootstrapping and building a job search engine offered Amit a "PhD" in understanding the nuances of job searches and employer postings.
- Problem Identification: Discovering that the issue wasn't with platforms like LinkedIn or Indeed, but rather the way jobs were presented, led to the development of Datapeople's unique solution.
- Enterprise Ready Journey: Transitioning from a job search engine to a sophisticated platform for both recruiters and hiring managers marked a significant growth phase for the company.
- Customer Diversification: Amit emphasized the importance of serving a wide range of industries beyond tech to ensure the solution's applicability and success across the job market.