While most startups have adopted structured interviewing through ATS systems like Greenhouse, sourcing remains largely unstructured. The challenge is that most founders and VCs don't have deep recruiting experience.
71% of founders had no prior founding experience, and 52% had never hired anyone before starting their company. As a founder, you're constantly told that hiring is your most important job. After working with hundreds of early-stage startups, I've found that successful hiring comes down to one core principle: scaling your taste as a founder through deliberate recruiting processes.
But here's what startup founders actually want: They don't want to hire, manage, and eventually fire technical recruiters. They just want to be crystal clear on what they need and get the best people to talk to. No one wants to spend their life optimizing outreach, mass-emailing candidates, or drowning in follow-ups.That's why we're building the third generation.
Scout teaches you how to sell your company, nail your ideal candidate profile, and close the right people - with way less recruiting overhead.
Because most hiring managers are missing out on amazing candidates simply because they're drowning in endless resumes or managing ineffective recruiters.
Scout structures your taste and automates the butter churning work. More time with the best candidates, less time with the worst ones. That's it.
Made by scouts
Kirk Fernandes
Founder
Kirk has nearly a decade of product leadership at Microsoft, Hightower & VTS. He has worked as a PM, designer, and software engineer. Kirk studied Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.
Randy Brown
Founder
Randy is a Y-Combinator alumni and /dev/color member who was the CTO of Jopwell, the leading diversity recruiting platform. Randy studied Economics and Computer Science at Princeton.