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👤 Alex Ghiculescu (One of four uni friends who built rostering for their college bar in 2012, then bootstrapped it 13 years with no VC.)🌐 siteghiculescu.substack.comLinkedIn
Four Brisbane grads built rostering software, bootstrapped a decade, then bought the Workforce brand to enter the US.
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Legally embedded. Payroll for hourly teams is mandated and costly to switch. Tanda bootstrapped to tens of millions in ARR, then bought Workforce.com to own the category name in the US.
01How the money moves
Hourly employer signs up to roster staff
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Adds time-tracking, HR, and payroll modules
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Pays a per-employee subscription every month
02The numbers
Tens of $M ARRbootstrapped · about 50%/yr
2023
Founder's figures on the SaaS Club podcast, 2023; bootstrapped from a college bar since 2012. SaaS Club
Founder says 'tens of millions' in ARR; bootstrapped, about 50%/yr.
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SaaS Club — co-founder Alex Ghiculescu: bootstrapped to "tens of millions" in ARR, 7,000+ customers, about 150 staffWikipedia — founded 2012 as Tanda; 2019 acquired the Workforce HR publication and rebranded to Workforce.comworkforce.com/pricing — quote-based, modular pricing (scheduling, HR, payroll)The Tanda Story — origin from a Brisbane university bar
revenue.sourced=STATED and describes the headline: 'tens of millions in ARR' is co-founder Alex Ghiculescu's own words on the SaaS Club podcast (2023) — first-party, not audited, so no false-precise figure is claimed. getLatka lists $8.8M (2025); that third-party estimate conflicts with the founder's statement and is deliberately not used. Customer count (7,000+), team (about 150), and $0 raised are from the same interview. Founded 2012 as Tanda; the 2019 acquisition of the Workforce HR publication and rebrand to Workforce.com are documented on Wikipedia. Pricing is quote-only (company site), so rival prices are shown as factual anchors, not quotes. Verified via first-party founder statement. We never score you.