GetLatka interview
How Careerist Hit $12M Revenue and 6,000 Customers While Turning Profitable (Interview with CEO Ivan Tsybaev)
Ivan Tsybaev (CEO of Careerist) spoke to Nathan Latka on April 27, 2023.
Careerist figures from the interview
- Revenue (2022)
- $12M
- Total Customers (2023)
- 6,000
- Monthly Profit (March 2023)
- $300K
- Team Size (2023)
- 300
- Total Funding Raised
- $9.25M
“Careerist is an online education and a fintech company. Finances the enrollment of underserved job seekers in The United States, then trains them for tech jobs with software and freelance instructors, and then automates their job search.”
“Since 2019, I think it's around 6,000 customers right now. Yep. So we have 500 new paid customers every month now.”
“Yeah. It was funny. I'm a fan of Tony Robbins, and I couldn't figure out the company, and then I went to the Tony Robbins event. So I changed my state and got understanding of how to do things.”
Bio
Born in Russia and lived most of my childhood on Sakhalin Island near Japan. I was fond of programming at school, won competitions. But at that time there was no online education and my parents were poor, so I could not get a professional programming education and got a financial management degree. My first job was in the finance department of ExxonMobil, but after a year there I decided to start my first company. I was engaged in various businesses, but always wanted to be in tech. In 2009 I moved to New York, in 2013 I moved to Silicon Valley to start a tech startup. We built the most popular trucker app in the US, Trucker Path, which we monetized through financial services. I sold it in late 2017. In March 2019, I founded the ed-fintech startup Careerist where we finance, train and place talent in tech.