Bouaziz: Deel is building credit infrastructure for global remote workers
Alex Bouaziz · Pay Without Borders with Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Darren Murph (GitLab), and Sondre Rasch (Safetywing) · Dec 20, 2022 · at 1:11:13
Alex Bouaziz is the co-founder and CEO of Deel. He reveals internal project efforts at Deel aimed at solving credit scoring and lending access for global remote contractors.
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“That's my new pet project. If you want to work on it, that's the one thing I've actually been working on for quite a, for a couple of months now.”
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