Yes. I’m the target customer for this service. Me. I have had 10+ jobs in Silicon Valley, from YC startups to FAANG. They failed because their core product had no value to its customers above and beyond what currently existed and only created friction. This is the crux of it. If they delivered value that their customers benefited from they would still exist.
I have probably 100 coworkers I could text right now and have lunch with this week. I have hundreds that I’m still friendly with. Zero of them used Triplebyte either because they didn’t hear about them or because of what I mentioned above. Having no customers or no users at the breadth of experience that I or my colleagues have is a true indication of what chances they actually had to succeed, which was nil. Meanwhile EVERY SINGLE ONE of them knows LinkedIn. My last 3 jobs were through LinkedIn. That gap plus lack of benefit for going through Triplebyte is why most would not take it seriously.
250k “users” is a false number in as much as most of them probably didn’t place through Triplebyte. I would love to know how many people actually got jobs through Triplebyte but I would guess much much less than 10,000. That would represent at least 250M in revenue and it could be sustainable at that point. Given the fact it died it must mean it had much less than 10k.
This sounds like you are the exact opposite of the target customer for this service, i.e. a developer lacking connections and struggling to get past resume hell but having all the necessary skills.
I have probably 100 coworkers I could text right now and have lunch with this week. I have hundreds that I’m still friendly with. Zero of them used Triplebyte either because they didn’t hear about them or because of what I mentioned above. Having no customers or no users at the breadth of experience that I or my colleagues have is a true indication of what chances they actually had to succeed, which was nil. Meanwhile EVERY SINGLE ONE of them knows LinkedIn. My last 3 jobs were through LinkedIn. That gap plus lack of benefit for going through Triplebyte is why most would not take it seriously.
250k “users” is a false number in as much as most of them probably didn’t place through Triplebyte. I would love to know how many people actually got jobs through Triplebyte but I would guess much much less than 10,000. That would represent at least 250M in revenue and it could be sustainable at that point. Given the fact it died it must mean it had much less than 10k.