Luc Dudler

@thejobpal has been acquired by @SmartRecruiters! Thanks so much to our clients, investors and supporters - you rock! And congratulations to the entire team and everyone involved!

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we now have to do about it:🧵1/17

What’s the toughest part of running a startup? A partial list: 🙇‍♂️ Recruiting. This is always hard, forever. 😪 Co-founder Conflict. Hopefully, you don’t have this. If you do, boy it’s hard. 💸 Almost running out of money. Happens to almost all of us. Not fun. 😿 Loneliness at the top. Tough indeed. 😤 Having to rebuild the team every few years. Man. 🐢 Falling behind the competition. Painful. 📉 Losing momentum. It’s so, so hard to get it back. That’s a lot of tough stuff. But one visceral memory I had was of a celebration dinner with friends after Adobe acquired my last startup. I was so tired, I barely made it to the restaurant. And then I had to choose between 3 open parking spots. But I couldn’t chose. I just sat there. It had been 5.5 years of mission-critical decisions. Many of which I got wrong. I just didn’t want to, I couldn’t, make those decisions anymore. I’ve of course bounced back since. And what I’ve learned is you have to find someone to help share this load. I had a lot of help here, a great VP of Sales and VP of Product to help. But it was not quite enough. Not as much as I needed. As CEO, you have to make a few big decisions right a year, and maybe 20-30 tough decisions a year on top of that. And many others every day, that you have to make. Delegate where you can, push down the decisions that can be un-made. But get more help, as much as you can, on the bigger ones. Because you’ll get some of them wrong. And just the pressure of getting most of them right, it’s more than we realized. It was the biggest weight of all for me.

As a founder, very few will actually tell you the truth These are the ones that will ultimately help you grow the most But with that will come some advice you don't want to hear And it will often be delivered sharply

I'm no longer a tech journalist and don't professionally have to care but I don't get the confusion over the Marc Andreessen/ Adam Neumann deal.

Many people implicitly assume that if a number shrinks by x%, it has to grow x% to get back to its old value. That's not far off for small x. A number that shrinks by 10% only has to grow about 11.1%. But a number that shrinks by 75% has to grow 300%.

10 companies that hit massive scale with surprisingly small teams:

Uber was founded in 2009, Datadog in 2010. 7 years ago, Uber was valued at $62B, Datadog at ~$150M. Today, Uber is valued at $63B, Datadog at $43B. Keep this in mind as you consider joining private companies with extraordinary valuations already. They might be a next Uber.

So a lot of SaaS and Cloud leaders have had a rough Q1 Not so much CrowdStrike. It's worth a stunning $53B, and is growing 65% at $1.7B in ARR One secret? It's minting cash 5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

I'll let you in on a little secret. Whenever someone shares a screen with me, I take a curious glance at the bookmark bar and the extension icons. I try not to read too much into it, but it does tell you a little bit about how the person ticks! :) PS: Here is mine.

The ⁦@pritipatel⁩ league table

Question 🙋‍♂️ Which companies have the most inspiring About Us and Careers pages that makes you go “f*** yes, let’s go!”?

ARE YOU ALLOWED TO CRITICIZE SIMONE BILES?: A DECISION TREE mcsweeneys.net/articles/are-y…

Congrats to @lucdudler and the whole team @thejobpal for joining forces with @SmartRecruiters to help enterprises to better manage and attract their talent. cc @inreachventures smartrecruiters.com/news/smartrecr…

Breaking #HRTech News. Massive congrats to @jerometernynck and @lucdudler! @SmartRecruiters acquires @jobpal bringing conversational Ai in-house to help scale automation right across the hiring process. #hiring #unleash #futureofwork unleashgroup.io/2020/11/12/sma…

@tordevau @carllsons @PeterMWald @SiemensDE @thejobpal @tordevau Wie kann ich denn helfen? :)

@carllsons @PeterMWald @SiemensDE @lucdudler @thejobpal Wer antwortet? Der bot oder @lucdudler ? 😉

Social Listening bei @SiemensDE Soll ich meine Bitte an #CARL direkt richten?

Indeed super interesting & I think relevant to everyone in #talentacquisition

Thanks @recruiterguynw !

@Madtarquin @CornerstoneInc @Moovila_App @SymphonyTalent_ @BeameryHQ @thejobpal @Limeade Great meeting you!

2nd day of #HRTechConf and I had briefings with @CornerstoneInc @Moovila_App @SymphonyTalent_ @BeameryHQ , learned about a new TA provider @thejobpal (check it out!), took a gondola ride with @limeade, and got to catch-up with so many friends and colleagues. #lovemyjob

Berlin-based @thejobpal gets €2.5 million to transform corporate recruiting with its AI chatbot tech.eu/brief/berlin-b…