Gergo Vari

Founder

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States22 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded multiple successful startups in recruitment tech.
  • Achieved 75% market share with Profession.hu in four years.
  • Advocated for people-first HR technology solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with a strong focus on recruitment technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipJob SearchProduct Development

Other Skills

Start-upsBusiness StrategyTalent AcquisitionEntrepreneurshipStrategyBusiness DevelopmentCareer ManagementCareer Path PlanningOrganizational DevelopmentVenture CapitalE-commerceStrategic PlanningManagement

About

I have one mission: to revolutionize job search for companies and professionals. A founder by nature, I first tasted entrepreneurship as a child selling fruit from my grandfather’s orchard. My journey through founding, funding, and exiting successful startups has taught me a valuable lesson: the hiring process is broken. And so is the way we look for jobs and develop our careers. That’s why I created Lensa, a start-up that offers a technological solution to the crisis of the career marketplace. In 2001, I funded and launched Profession.hu, Hungary’s leading recruitment platform. In just 4 years, we reached an extraordinary market share of 75%. When SanomaMedia purchased the company in 2005, the transaction was the largest of its kind in Hungary up to that time. My passion for startups led me on to found and head e-Ventures, and later, in 2008, to the launch and sale of AffilateMedia, Network.hu, and Replise. These ventures opened my eyes to the need for recruiting and human resources technology that puts people first. At Lensa, we are working every day to share the transformative potential of this vision with the world. Starting with you!

Experience

Lensa

Founder & CEO

Aug 2016Present · 9 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, Budapest

  • Lensa offers a technological solution to the crisis of the career marketplace. Using sophisticated machine learning, we instantly provide companies with pre-qualified candidates and match professionals with the positions that best fit their skills, goals, personalities, and needs.
  • The result: a career platform that puts people first and drastically cuts the time and cost of talent acquisition.
  • Organizations and recruiters find talent instantly, and jobseekers unlock opportunities while gaining insight into their strengths.
  • As the strategic head of Lensa, I am working every day to share the transformative potential of this technology with the world. I also bring key players from the human resources and recruitment industries into the discussion to help us create products that move the whole industry forward.
Job SearchLeadership

Replise

Founder & CEO

Jan 2010Jan 2015 · 5 yrs · Budapest, Frankfurt, Warsaw, London

  • Replise, as a start-up, grew out of an idea in 2008 into a company that
  • became a global player in social media analysis to be acquired in 2015.
  • The Replise social media engine transforms online data into valuable
  • business insight. After its initial private funding, the company has
  • attracted premium VC financing, fuelling Replise's ambition to become a key
  • player on the European market.
Job SearchLeadership

E-ventures

Founder & CEO

Jan 2006Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · Budapest

  • I created e-Ventures to provide angel investing by financing and supporting early-stage projects. The company reviewed over 300 startups during its time. e-Ventures eventually developed its own portfolio by creating a series of new ventures, including Network.hu and Affiliate.hu, which were successfully sold later on.
LeadershipProduct Development

Profession.hu

Founder & CEO

Jan 2001Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · Budapest

  • Profession.hu launched as a late mover job board in Hungary, and rapidly became the predominant player in a highly competitive market. After quickly identifying its key driving forces, I implemented a rewarding strategy focused on clean product design, SME sales, and channel marketing to outperform the competition. I created an organization with an innovative team of 30+, and tripled annual revenues for 3 consecutive years before selling the company. Profession.hu maintains its market leading position even today.
Job SearchLeadership

Education

McGill University

BCom — Major in Finance

Jan 1996Jan 2000

WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Jan 1999Present

Corvinus University of Budapest

Jan 1997Jan 1998

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