
Before Talkable and Hired, Allan Grant built a 50-person company, watched it collapse, and spent six years paying the bill. His second act began with a simpler habit: build the smallest thing that can reveal the truth.
Talkable is a San Francisco-based B2B SaaS company that builds referral and loyalty marketing programs for e-commerce brands. Founded in 2010 as Curebit and backed by Y Combinator, the platform turns existing customers into marketers by rewarding them for referring friends. It offers referral tracking, incentive management, A/B testing, segmentation, fraud detection, and real-time analytics, and is used by 250+ retail and D2C brands including TOMS, Rothy's, L'Occitane and Alo Yoga.