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Jacob Miller Left the Job He Wanted - Then Discovered He Had Already Found It
Ashby's first go-to-market hire left in pursuit of another zero-to-one adventure. His return reveals a quieter truth about ambition: sometimes the next frontier is waiting inside the place you already know.
The Recruiting Software Fight Nobody Warned You About
Ashby bets on real-time analytics and native scheduling for fast-moving teams. Greenhouse leans on structured-interview workflow and a deep enterprise install base. Here is how the two actually differ.
Ashby or iCIMS Is Really a Bet on How You Hire
The fashionable ATS and the entrenched enterprise platform solve different kinds of recruiting pain. The right choice starts with your operating model, not a feature checklist.
Your ATS Is Really a Bet on Its Owner
Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS and SmartRecruiters increasingly sell the same promise. The better buying question is who controls the roadmap - and what kind of hiring operation you actually run.
Benjamin Encz
Benjamin Encz is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ashby, a San Francisco-based AI-native recruiting platform used by companies like OpenAI, Shopify, and Snowflake. A German-born software engineer turned recruiting-infrastructure builder, he spent 80% of his time on recruiting operations as Director of Engineering at PlanGrid before co-founding Ashby in 2018. Under his leadership, Ashby has grown to 2,700+ customers, 380 employees, and $142.5M in total funding including a $50M Series D in 2025.