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Roger Dickey predicted in 2017 that most seed-stage AI investments would fail
“I think artificial intelligence is the wave. It's that's the trend right now that's forming new companies. So you have a lot of people that are investing in teams that probably aren't the best teams to be going after those opportunities. I think there are goin…”
Gigster received $3M in project submissions within 24 hours of launch
“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.”
Roger Dickey: Engineering job openings outnumber existing software engineers five to one
“There's a five to one ratio of job openings for engineers to engineers that actually exist.”
Roger Dickey predicts a higher-level language will soon simplify software creation
“I believe that there will be a higher level language for software that makes software Easier to build. You know, we've gone from assembly to, you know, C++ to JavaScript, now to these web frameworks. I think there's going to be something even higher level than…”
Gigster launched as a simple landing page with chat
“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.”
Gigster's average project size grew from $20k to $150k between rounds
“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.”