Roger Dickey

Founder & Managing Partner, Untitled Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Roger Dickey created the Facebook game Mafia Wars at Zynga and co-founded Gigster, a software development marketplace acquired by Ionic Partners. He later co-founded the home remodeling service Made Renovation and has backed more than 120 startups as an investor.

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Insight

Dickey: Top developers only work for Google or start companies

“The best developers want to work for a visionary inspiring company like Google, or they want to go start their own company.”

Roger Dickey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:52 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

Disclosure

Dickey: Clients start $40K projects within two hours on Gigster

“We've seen people start 40,000 dollar projects after being on the website for just two hours, and that's not exceptional.”

Roger Dickey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 21:34 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

Insight

Dickey: Process-driven engineering mindsets make engineers effective company founders

“One of the reasons that engineers tend to make good founders is because engineers think in a certain way. So, you know, I think, ah, understanding at least how engineers think and being able to think in that same kind of process-driven and logical way helps ev…”

Roger Dickey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 31:18 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

Disclosure

Dickey: Gigster has 200 active software projects running simultaneously

“Whenever we start a new project, we have 200 projects going on right now, we start a new private room in Slack so that the team can collaborate.”

Roger Dickey Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 22:44 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
a16z Podcast \| The Future of Software Development	Jan 2, 2019	5m

Roger Dickey

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