Rick Marini of BranchOut #205

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Rick Marini of job listing site BranchOut joined us to talk about how his service is helping solve--in some part--our nation's employment problem. Rick discussed his decision to operate BranchOut within Facebook, why he think this country can--and will-regain its competitive edge and what he'll do differently the next time he sells a company.

0:00-2:00 Welcome everyone. We’re here today with Rick Marini, CEO of BranchOut.
2:00-3:45 Ryan Carson had a great episode and we recently went and spoke at one of his conferences, right Tyler?
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4:30-7:30 Thank you to MailChimp for sponsoring the show! Everyone thank them @MailChimp on Twitter!
7:30-8:30 Rick, when did we meet?
8:30-9:15 What is the product and why did you build it?
9:15-12:00 Give us some idea of the growth of the product.
12:00-13:45 Jason demos the BranchOut interface on Facebook.
13:45-15:15 How do you differentiate yourself from LinkedIn?
15:15-16:30 How many people are paying to advertise jobs on LinkedIn?
16:30-19:15 Why doesn’t LinkedIn integrate with Facebook?
19:15-23:00 What happens when Facebook decides that they want to have a jobs feature?
23:00-23:45 And Facebook gets 0% of what you sell to recruiters right now?
23:45-27:30 What is the first-ever enterprise product you’re launching on Facebook this week?
27:30-34:30 Thank you to SurveyMonkey for sponsoring the show. Everyone thank them on Twitter @SurveyMonkey.
34:30-35:15 So why didn’t you call up Mark Pincus to invest?
35:15-40:00 Do you ever think you sold Tickle too soon?
40:00-44:15 Would you do the sale differently if you could do it again?
44:15-46:45 What is your take on the current massive unemployment?
46:45-48:15 Are we not competitive enough as a country anymore?
48:15-52:30 Why don’t we raise the tax on the rich 3% and put it toward engineering or science degrees?
52:30-55:30 Tyler takes note of the average income of Americans and the percentile breakdowns of household income.
55:30-56:30 Jason’s message for Occupy Wall Street: This is all Tim Ferris’ fault.
56:30-59:00 Kirin Kalia is joining us today for the “Guess the Fake Startup” segment.
59:00-1:02:00 Rick, we’ll let you tell us which you think is the fake one first. (Rick picks BeautyToGo as the fake one.)
1:02:00-1:04:30 Jason is stumped! Tyler wins!
1:04:30-1:05:30 Rick, we wish you continued success with BranchOut. If you’re a great developer or UX person, email rick@branchout.com
1:05:30-1:06:45 What are you looking for when you hire someone?
1:06:45-1:07:15 Thank you to MailChimp and SurveyMonkey for their support of the program!

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