# LD Talent Investor Update Dec 22 / Jan 23 | LD Talent

- Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/feed/161609
- Entity ID: wefunder:feed_item:161609
- Published at: 2023-02-26 11:35:16 UTC
- Updated at: 2025-07-09 03:22:59 UTC

## Author
Gobi Dasu

## Subject
LD Talent

## Content
Hello investors, potential investors, and advisors,Some things we at LD Talent have been working on: marketing - got approved for the google ads api, so we can bulk add keywordswe want to track our talent's tech and interdisciplinary skillsour team is manning our Zendesk site chat nearly 24/7design - creating referral widgets on platform interactions to promote viralityvetting - launched an AST-based static code analyzer and plagiarism checker for assessing applicantsKey MetricsGross sales growth in 2022 - reinvesting our profits into platform improvementMore metrics in our deckWhat went wrongThe economic downturn hit 1 more of our customers, a 500 Global startup.What went wellGot 9 new signups on our site in the last month2 new hires from our first Series A customerNew marketing emails via Gmass have a good inbox rate.We need help withOur trial has a 90% conversion rate, but we need help getting more companies to try our platform.We need an introduction to large companies that use Turing, Toptal, or Upwork.Happy to answer any questions you might have.Thank you for all the support.Regards,Gobi, Girija, and Anisha