Gigster

“So we launched Gigster November, December, twenty-fourteen, pretty much the same week that we launched. Actually, it was, I believe, within one or two days, we had three million dollars worth of business submitted. Literally, I think it was the first 24 hours.”

“And I think, you know, one of the ways we think about it is in Andreessen Owen's Some large percentage of our company, let's say, 10 to 20% of the company, we think of them like a co-founder, and they actually have added the same level of value that a co-found…”

“You see you know, the Accentures and Deloitte's of the world picking up 50 to a hundred million dollar development contracts. Well, largest one we've worked on so far is about two million dollars.”

“So Gigster itself was basically a landing page that said, hire a quality developer in five minutes. And then it had a simple chat application on the backend that you could use to chat with us and hire said developer.”

“Before Gigster, we actually tried about 25 different ideas. We built prototypes, shipped them on Product Hunt or Hacker News.”

“Between our series A and our series B, which is roughly 20 15 to 20 16, we saw our average project size go up from 15 or 20,000 to about a 150,000.”

“When we went to the partner meeting, the final approval meeting for our investment with Andreessen, I think they asked us to talk about ourselves for about 10 or 15 minutes before the pitch”