In March of 2019, Stripe famously wrote that their 5th engineering hub would be remote. Other startups and early-stage investors followed their lead. What was previously seen as taboo — having and backing remote companies — became normal overnight.¹ What happened was such a strong shift, it reminded me of…

Yesterday, Google announced they are shutting down Google Hire, their Applicant Tracking System (ATS). At Agave, we understand how difficult it can be to deliver great hiring software to the market. This is why we want to fill the need Google Hire’s impending shutdown will create. Agave Hire was born…

I really enjoyed an interview with the CEO of Hubspot.¹ His thesis: Business software is moving towards freemium models. Nobody wants to talk to sales reps, they want to self-evaluate. User experience (particularly on-boarding) is the new key differentiator. This makes sense. At Agave, we use a lot of B2B…

At Agave, we redesigned the logo and acquired a new domain a few months ago. And we’re moving to the next phase of the business, which requires new tools, architecture, and designs. …

Most companies are lucky if they can find a 5 letter .com domain that’s memorable and easy to spell. With Agave.com, we liked that it met the criteria for a memorable and simple name, but there’s a story behind it too. If the first thing you think of is tequila…

Want to jump straight to the demo? Click here. The CEO of Carta shared a new offer letter in 2016. When I saw that offer letter, it told me more about the company than anything else. …

I’ve talked to various hiring teams over the past several months and after spending 3 years building out an engineering team myself, I was surprised by some of the things I discovered. The teams I talked to range from very small (1 or 2 founder teams, obscure startups) to very…

By Sheng Chu (Senior Visual Designer) and Ali Michel (VP User Experience & Design) at Tophatter. First Impressions I first learned about Tophatter in May, 2017 during a job search and to be honest, it wasn’t quite love at first sight. When I looked at the app, I found a dated UI…

By Chris Estreich, Co-founder & CTO at Tophatter. This was originally published internally to our engineering team, but we decided to open it up for others who are interested in learning how machine learning can be applied to classification problems at scale. Why is this important? A taxonomy plays several important roles on marketplaces…