Laskie
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Laskie was a San Francisco-based tech hiring platform founded in 2021 by CEO Chris Bakke (who had previously sold the startup Interviewed to Indeed in 2017). It described itself as 'the most powerful platform to hire tech talent' - a job-matching platform where jobs apply to talent via its 'ReverseApply' movement, matching engineers, designers and marketers with roles. It was free for job seekers and charged employers a percentage of the hired employee's first-year salary. It raised $6 million in a seed round led by Bloomberg Beta and Peak State Ventures.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Laskie was founded in San Francisco as a tech-talent job-matching platform, raising $6 million in a seed round led by Bloomberg Beta and Peak State Ventures.
- Acquired by Twitter
Twitter (newly formed X Corp) acquired Laskie in May 2023 - the first acquisition of the Elon Musk era - for tens of millions of dollars in cash and stock. Laskie's standalone platform was taken offline after the deal.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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