Inside Juicebox: Co-Founder Ishan Gupta announces Series B raise for AI recruiter tool

This week Maya and Priya sit down with Ishan Gupta, CTO and co-founder of Juicebox, who comes on the pod to announce that Juicebox just closed their Series B!!

Juicebox is the AI recruiting platform letting you find your next hire by just describing them in plain English. PeopleGPT searches 800M+ profiles and surfaces the best fits. No boolean filters required.

Ishan grew up in India watching his dad run a business and always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur, but had no idea he would drop out of college just three months in to build Juicebox.

Before Juicebox, there were two failed pivots. Tune in to hear why they built a music company and marketplace first, and most importantly why they ultimately decided to build Juicebox.

Ishan breaks down why the hiring manager always knows exactly who they want but never has time to find them, and the recruiter has time but less context.

LLMs change the game because they are the first technology that can actually read a resume the way a human would, picking up on someone’s trajectory, company stage, promotion pace, even GitHub contributions.

Ishan talks about

• Finding message market fit and then product market fit
• Why recruiting is a zero sum game
• If the recruiter / sourcer role disappears
• If a human or AI is more biased

Juicebox is hiring across engineering, product, design, sales, and more. The company is high ownership and still operates like a seed stage startup. juicebox.ai/careers.

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00:00 Series B Fundraising

03:36 Unexpected reason SF is the best city to live in

07:02 Co-founder meet cute <3

09:38 The two ideas that didn’t work

14:32 LinkedIn’s recruiter tool will die

17:43 LLMs change the talent search game

18:37 Juicebox product

26:47 Why recruiting is a zero sum game

28:23 Will recruiters disappear

31:52 Why AI is less biased than humans in recruiting

34:27 How AI impacts recruiting as a founder

38:30 Who Juicebox is hiring