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Are the insiders paid, and do their employers know they're working with you guys?

Insiders are paid as individual advisors. We don't work with employers, so we ask insiders to make sure this is OK with their company. In some cases, there are employer policies against them doing this, and in those cases, we focus on former employees.

Former employees still have the network and the knowledge on what it takes to land the job, what the culture is like, and how to help someone prepare for interviews.

I'm helping build a similar service in a tangentially-related market. I hope you don't mind a few questions:

Do you offer "insiders" a percentage cut of each service purchased?

How do you find "insiders"?

We're planning on paying our "insiders" via Stripe and letting "insiders" sign up themselves and go through a short vetting process.

We're still about 3 months from being launch-ready, but I'm intrigued to see a service that operates so similarly to our plans.

Best of luck!

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