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Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan

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Re: Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan

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Post by notyourwork » Wed, Aug 30, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

dopamean wrote: post #46

notyourwork wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious, if you were pitching how would you try to identify the decision maker?

Is it crazy to just ask?

No but do you think in context of original article I'm not sure a celebrity would openly admit this. This is a power play question so the answer depends on who is in the room.

Re: Gigster raises $20M from investors including Marc Benioff and Michael Jordan

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Post by ganeshkrishnan » Thu, Aug 31, 2017, 7:12 AM UTC

nedwin wrote: post #2

Having built a marketplace company around digital services I was a massive skeptical of Gigster but their revenue growth is phenomenal. Congrats to the team. Super keen to see how & when they expand to new verticals outside of software development.

I am constantly hiring for my startup and skeptical of gigster. If I wanted to pay top dollars I would rather have the dev work in person and meet at least once a week

Machine learning talent is best recruited from uni directly unless you can pay top dollars. The silicon valley startup mechanics really baffles me, but money over powers everything including mediocre ideas

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