On: Simply Hired is shutting down June 26

[justizin]

Simply Hired's founder self-funded, FYI, I don't think there was ever any VC money involved.

At least when I worked for them circa 2010 that was the case.

Hope all the smart folks I worked with there land safely.

[fintler → justizin]

    Simply Hired, founded in 2004 and based in Sunnyvale, had raised just over
    $34 million in funding from investors that include Dave McClure,
    Foundation Capital, Guy Kawasaki, Fox, IDG Ventures and Ronald Conway.

[justizin → fintler]

I stand corrected. I guess they burned a lot of the founder's money first. ;d

[bostonpete → justizin]

It seems like your memory from 2010 isn't even quite right. According to this article, they were taking investments at least since 2006...

http://techcrunch.com/2006/04/18/simply-hired-takes-135m-fro...

[throwaway59511 → justizin]

Crunchbase shows them having taken an A round in '04 and several times since then [1]. Their E round wasn't long before my interview there [2].

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simply-hired#/entity

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810217