Dickey: Gigster has 200 active software projects running simultaneously
Roger Dickey · a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development · Jan 2, 2019 · at 22:44
Roger Dickey, co-founder of software development platform Gigster, discusses operational scale and reliance on Slack for project execution.
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“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.”
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