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Over the past decade, I’ve scaled revenue and client success at three SaaS companies from $3M to $50M+ ARR, delivering 110%+ net revenue retention and top 10% NPS scores (65+).

Today, we help recruiting agency owners & Principals ($5M–$20M billings, 5–20 recruiters) land new clients from LinkedIn by becoming a trusted authority in their market. 

Our clients are busy business owners. They don’t want to be “content creators.” 

They want done-for-you exec content that lands new clients. That’s what we do.

In the past 12 months, we’ve generated $5M+ in client billings from LinkedIn by positioning recruiting agency owners as the go-to authorities in their markets.

Our methodology:
→ Revenue Growth Engine - a 3-step system perfected with 40+ founders & recruiting agencies
→ Content strategy that generates demand for contingent and retained searches (not just likes)
→ Strategic outreach to initiate conversations with your ideal clients
→ All requiring just 1.5 hours per week from busy Principals and owners

Our results:
→ 40+ owners and Principals served
→ $5M+ in client billings generated from inbound leads via LinkedIn
→ 8+ qualified inquiries per month within 90 days (average client result)
→ Doubling client pipelines in under 6 months
→ Clients include 7 and 8-figure recruiting agencies commanding $75K+ fees and securing multi-search mandates

And we're just getting started!

We help recruiting business owners who are:
→ Tired of building trust from scratch and ready for clients who arrive pre-sold
→ Reliant on a referral pipeline that has plateaued and feels unpredictable
→ Ready to turn decades of expertise into an inbound client pipeline

Ready to turn LinkedIn into your #1 growth channel?
→ Book a 25-minute strategy call: 

https://calendly.com/rohan-karunakaran-mbww/1-1-strategy-call

Rohan Karunakaran

I sat down with LinkedIn’s first Chief HR Officer, Steve Cadigan, to share a few early lessons from his time at LinkedIn - well before it became the iconic company we know today.

Two moments from the early days stuck with me:

1// The “Obama validation” moment

When President Obama visited LinkedIn’s campus in 2011, signups jumped from 1 new member/second → 2 new members/second the very next day.

2// The “IPO perception shift” moment

On the day LinkedIn went public, membership doubled again - not because of a new product feature… but because of market validation. 

Big takeaway for founders/operators: 

Trust compounds. And visibility and perception can accelerate adoption as much as  product. In both earlier and mature stages of growth. 

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LinkedIn's first Chief HR Officer, Steve Cadigan, dropped this insight during our conversation and I keep coming back to it:

The companies winning right now aren’t the ones with the most resources or experience. 

They’re the ones who’ve learned to get out of their own way.

Two shifts he’s seeing:

1// Command-and-control is breaking

The most valuable companies are being built by smaller, faster, less hierarchical teams, where decisions happen close to the work, not at the top of the org chart.

2// Tenure is being replaced by 'rate of learning'

The strongest organizations are optimizing for rate of learning -  bringing in people who challenge legacy thinking and make better decisions faster.

AI is the obvious catalyst here. When the cost of intelligence and experimenting drops and the pace of change spikes, the advantage shifts to orgs that can adapt fastest.

Tesla is a clear example. Worth more than Toyota, Ford, GM, and Hyundai combined.

Not because they have more experience. Because investors believe they can out-innovate the incumbents.

Full episode in the comments below 👇

Just reviewed a recruiter's LinkedIn profile.

$150M org. 7,000+ employees. EY Entrepreneur of the Year.

Her content? Mostly podcast promos and company updates.

Great for brand awareness. But ineffective at building deeper trust, familiarity, and consideration with potential clients. 

This is the gap I keep seeing with search firm owners. 

Incredible operators. Hundreds of placements. Decades of pattern recognition.

But their content stays surface-level and could be written by anyone else. 

The stuff that would make a CEO or hiring manager stop scrolling:

- How you assess leadership talent differently  
- Why most retained searches stall at the same point 
- What separates firms that fill in 45 days vs. 120+

That’s the stuff that builds authority between conversations.

Educational content does something brand content can't - it makes a prospect feel understood before you've ever spoken. 

You want to 'get in their head' with how specifically you speak to the issues they're facing and how you'd solve them. 

Especially in exec search, where your average retainer is $100K+, arriving pre-trusted changes the sales cycle.

It's the difference between a 5-call trust tour and a 1-call close.

Most firms are sitting on decades of placement insight that never leaves the founder's brain. 

HUGE miss IMO. 

If you run a search firm and want to turn what you already know into inbound demand — DM me. Happy to share what we’re seeing work.

We're taught to chase achievement.

No one teaches us how to expand consciousness.

I came across this 2x2 and it stuck with me because it maps the relationship between the two - and how they reinforce each other.

And by consciousness, I mean self-awareness - the degree to which we’re awake to our patterns, motivations, and deeper purpose.

→ Playing the game - low agency, low consciousness. Running default scripts.

→ Winning the game - high agency, low consciousness Achievement driven by ego or fear.

→ Escaping the game - high consciousness, low agency. Insightful… but not impactful.

→ Evolving the game - high agency, high consciousness. Aligned and effective.

In my own life, breaking points - a stressful work environment and a relationship ending - forced an upgrade in consciousness

For some it's burnout, financial pressure, or a health scare - the universe giving us a shake toward a more joyful and aligned path. If we choose to listen. 

A disruption that asks: Is this actually aligned?

“Evolving the game” became a useful decision filter for me:

• Work with people I genuinely respect and enjoy
• Choose a lane that feels energizing, not draining
• Work in my 'zone of genius', delegate the rest where possible

Also, the path isn’t linear. For me, business stability came first. Consciousness expanded later.

Only then did I have the courage to step into the unknown and choose more aligned work.

Others may begin highly self-aware - and later build agency through action.

It's also easy to drift between quadrants. Staying in the “Evolving the Game” mindset isn’t automatic - it requires regular practice and commitment. 

Curious - does this framework resonate with you? Where do you see yourself on the map?

DeepMake

DeepMake is powered by the latest open source generative AI models to make content creation fast and easy. Users can unleash their creativity and bring the impossible to life with a few clicks using text-to-image generation, image-to-image generation, super-resolution enhancement, smart segmentation and other AI tools. Backed by Open Core Ventures.

Chief Executive Officer

Vext Technologies

Vext is powering LLM pipeline-building and offers a “Zapier for AI’ platform for users who want to lego-block their LLM at speed and scale. With Vext, customers can easily and rapidly develop custom AI applications tailored to their unique business needs and data.

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Angel Investor and Advisor

Angel investor and adviser for early stage AI, Fintech, SaaS and Climate companies.
Devyce (YC S22), Berry (YC W23), Miliopay (YC W23), JustPaid (YC W23), Freetrade, Connect Earth, Alacrity, Vextapp

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GoCardless

Global Head of Strategy and Business Operations
Leading the execution of our global strategy across all BUs.
Product-market-fit and product launches in new and existing markets. Go-to-market strategy.
Customer insight and Voice of Customer.
Corporate development and M&A.

Director of Strategy & Business Operations

Launched GoCardless in North America and scaled the team, operations and customer acquisition.
Created and executed the go-to-market strategy for the US.
Product-market-fit analysis and iteration.

Senior Manager, Strategy & Business Operations

Partnered with the CRO on sales operations, market segmentation and sales enablement.

Sales Strategy & Operations

1UP - Online Sports Competitions

• Short-form video social media platform for P2P sports competitions ("TikTok for sports")
• Member of the 2017 THINK Accelerator programme in Sweden (thinkaccelerate.com) 
• Innovative advertising model for sports brands through sponsorship of online competitions created by users and brands
• Global user base across multiple sports with revenue generation from brands, events and venues
• Created a global network of amateur and professional athletes as ambassadors 
• Partnered with international sports brands, venues and events

Co-Founder

Jefferies

Investment Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions 

• Advised clients on international corporate mergers, sales and acquisitions ($10m-$3bn+)
• Advised FTSE 100 and S&P 500 companies, PE, sovereign wealth funds and governments
• Strategic recommendations on potential investments, partnerships and opportunities
• Transactions in Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia
• Lead on buy-side and sell-side transactions: managing team, client, external advisors
• Complex transaction design - asset type, jurisdiction, counter parties and market conditions
• Strategic recommendations based on market knowledge and counter party discussions 
• IPOs, private placements, equity and bond issues, liaising with regulators and exchanges
• Financial, investment and valuation modelling for companies, assets and mergers
• Conducting and co-ordinating due diligence 
• Complex deal structuring and commercial agreement terms
• Value negotiations, corporate legal agreements and transaction agreements

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Schlumberger

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Scaling DeepMake AI into a leading provider of the latest generative AI functionality for video creators, content editing professionals and VFX studios. A past co-founder and angel investor and advisor to early-stage companies in AI, Fintech, SaaS and Climate verticals, including multiple YC companies. Expertise in strategy, go-to-market strategy, commercialization, market entry and product-market-fit gained in senior leadership roles.

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