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altay

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About altay

Musician, full-stack web dev (Ruby), and Founder/Partner at 10x Management (http://www.10xmanagement.com). 10x Management is bringing the model of a talent agency to the tech industry.

Formerly Founder/CEO of MightyQuiz, YC W08.

Contact me at altay at 10xmanagement dot com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #8617488

    Thanks for the endorsement, Greg! Makes me incredibly happy to hear that you've had a positive experience with 10x. Re: the praise for Michael Solomon, for the record, I (the techn…

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    Comment #8617432

    Really, you don't know THP? Lots of demand for it these days... J/K, yeah, I'm guessing that "P" happens to sound a lot like "T" on a fact-checking call. =P I sent them a note abou…

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    Comment #8617427

    I'm with you, it's certainly not the most elegant solution to the problem, but we're basically Doing Things That Don't Scale. ( http://paulgraham.com/ds.html ) As we grow, we ident…

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    Comment #8617409

    No, we're constantly evaluating people during and after each project. Thankfully we've only had to drop someone in one situation, but we're not afraid to do that if necessary to ke…

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    Comment #8617392

    (Founder of 10x here.) Max* is right... we have spent literally zero dollars on PR. The New Yorker approached us for this article. (As did Mashable for their piece last week which …

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    Comment #8542306

    (10x Management cofounder here.) Yup, this pre-vetting is a key part of the service we provide for companies. (We work for the talent, but of course we need to provide value to bot…

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    Comment #8542290

    (Cofounder of 10x Management here.) Thanks for the shout-out, Aline! You point out the main difference in our models, which is exactly what makes our talent agency work: the key is…

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    Comment #5529808

    Worldwide.

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    Comment #5528693

    We're open to talking to anyone, from web+mobile devs, to designers, to data scientists, etc. We even represent a guy who does bioinformatics. The one caveat is that obviously dema…

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    Comment #5528645

    (Altay from 10x here.) Not exactly sure what you mean, but if you're suggesting this is a problem that can be solved with software, I actually think one of our competitive advantag…

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    Comment #5528531

    Well, you haven't met us yet. ;)

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    Comment #5528518

    Hi everyone, Altay from 10x Management here. Happy to answer questions here or at altay@10xmanagement.com or via our website ( http://www.10xmanagement.com )

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    Comment #5528487

    Hey ctide, I'm one of the founders. To be honest, I'm a little nervous about the fluff, too, but I do sincerely believe we're doing something different with 10x. First and foremost…

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    Comment #4556056

    We're doing this at 10x Management ( http://10xmanagement.com ). Long story short, I was freelancing as a full-stack (Rails) dev, and also playing in a couple bands. Through the mu…

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    Comment #4165727

    This is what we're doing at 10x Management ( http://10xmanagement.com ). I'm a YC alum and experienced web dev freelancer. I also play a lot of music so, through serendipitous conn…

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    Comment #4165073

    Thanks for the shout-out, Hang! Altay from 10x Management here. Yup, we're doing this, and ramping up quickly. Feel free to get in touch (email in profile) if you want to learn mor…

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    Comment #309098

    How will you find them?

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    Comment #304863

    >> Was it worth it? yes.

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    Comment #270170

    Fun fact, Terry Tao is an alum of this program: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=269717