Darrian Mikell is the co-founder and CEO of Qualifi, a platform that powers the fastest phone interview experience in the world, and helps recruiting teams to hire great candidates faster than ever before.
Darrian talks to Ryan about the process of growing and scaling Qualifi – of taking an original problem in need of a solution and turning into a thriving business model – as well as the main challenges he faces as a founder, and how he overcomes them.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Often the best business ideas are built around the solving of problems that we face. It’s almost guaranteed that if we are finding a process frustrating, then someone else in the world will be, too.
When trying to hire good candidates, you have to remember that other companies are also doing so. Speed matters.
Growth always works best when it’s swift, but along the way, we have to remember that money needs to be spent wisely. Not necessarily in a more conservative way, but more thoughtful.
BEST MOMENTS
‘What we do now is a direct result of the pain points that I was facing’
‘Speed is everything in the world of recruiting’
‘Every company is trying to grow, right?’
‘I can uniquely think into problem spaces and come up with solutions’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
The Scale Up Show – https://omny.fm/shows/the-scale-up-show
Apply for a Revenue Growth Consulting Session With Ryan Staley – https://www.scalerevenue.io/4-schedule-page1611678914248
Darrian Mikell LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/darrianmikell
Darrian Mikell Twitter – https://twitter.com/darrianmikell
Darrian Mikell – https://linktr.ee/darrianmikell
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How do you grow like a VC backed company without taking on investors? Do you want to create a lifestyle business, a performance business or an empire? How do you scale to an exit without losing your freedom?
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Ryan is a Founder, Podcast Host, Speaker, Loving Father, Husband and Dog Dad. He is a 18x award winner and grew a business unit from 0-$30M in Annual Recurring Revenue while he adding $30M in capital revenue in less than 6 years. He did this all with only 4 sales people and without demand generation.
Whether you are a new Founder, VP or CEO who is already generating 6, 7 or even multiple 8 figures annually, you are going to gain knowledge about sales you didn’t know existed.
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