Season 6 | Ep37 - Adam Richardson on building a SaaS sales recruitment agency in a market where over 70% of their candidates are underperforming in current market conditions!

On this week's show, I'm joined by Adam Richardson. Adam is the founder of Strive Sales, a dedicated go-to-market recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester with an office in Tampa in the US with over 20 employees.

At 33, he has loads of experience in running businesses. He got into recruitment when he was in his early twenties and, within a couple of years, he became an entrepreneur launching his first business outside of the recruitment market. 

Upon selling this credit finance business, he launched his first recruitment agency and later a second brand which he now focuses on fully today. 

Through that period, he's seen so many ups and downs, specifically in the go-to-market niche, which is predominantly recruiting salespeople into VC-backed software companies.

Over 70% of all the candidates in the sales market in VC-backed companies are underperforming, which means the knock-on effect of recruitment has been astronomical. He saw over 50% of the vacancies he was working on vanish at the beginning of 2022.

So as a company, they've had to evolve, they've had to adapt, they've had to become BD focused. 

In this episode we talk about his experience in all his different businesses, but really how using all this experience enabled him to get through such a very difficult 2022.

Now, they’re seeing the upside and it's starting to shift along with economic conditions.

Adam is a young, super ambitious, super motivated, and knowledgeable guy!

I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did recording it.

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