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Adam Stone

VP of AI Products, LeapXpert. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Adam Stone is an Australian tech entrepreneur who founded Speedlancer, a fast-turnaround freelance marketplace backed by 500 Startups, earning him a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. He later co-founded StartADAM, a cross-platform messaging and AI collaboration software company acquired by LeapXpert in 2025.

1shows
1appearances
10statements
4resolved
1supported
2contradicted
25%fully supported

Everything Adam Stone said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Start Adam shifts from per-user to communication-based pricing to drive adoption
“Yeah, we were looking at user-based pricing. And now I think we're looking at we want to incentivize all users in a company to use it. So we're not so much looking at user-based pricing. Now it's more communication-based pricing.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 3:51 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Stone: Speedlancer is first freelance marketplace to integrate into Trello
“Speedlancer already plugs into Trello now using StartAtom. And so you can set up a Trello board and send tasks to Speedlancer from Trello. And we're the first marketplace to do that.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 8:39 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Adam Stone halts Speedlancer acquisition spend due to crowded freelance market
“Right now, we're in the ramping down stage. So I think it's going to look like this for Speedlancer, like an arc where Speedlancer will come back once we own the distribution channel, because I don't really want to be paying for acquisition right now in such a…”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 9:09 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Stone: Trello App Store randomizes listings in communication category
“What I do know about Trello in particular is there's a randomization component, which to me is really nice because it means that they give everyone the opportunity. So if you click on the communication category, I think you said in two categories, they give yo…”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 11:54 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Contradicted
Adam Stone: Speedlancer was likely the first verticalized freelance marketplace after Fiverr
“And in 2015, there was no verticalized freelancing marketplaces. We were probably the first one after Fiverr, I guess, if you count them as verticalized.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 2:08 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Adam Stone is winding down Speedlancer to focus on Start Adam SaaS
“It's operating, but to be honest, we're winding it down as we're focusing on the SAS.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 4:17 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Stone: Total funding across Speedlancer and Start Adam is approximately $1.9M
“1.9 or something like that.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 5:37 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Start Adam plans to integrate freelance services back into its SaaS
“Although we're building a SAS now, our long-term vision is that we reintegrate services into it.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 7:32 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Start Adam generates 700+ installs from Trello App Store
“We've had like, 700 or more to date over the last couple of months.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 10:52 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Adam Stone: Speedlancer raised under $1M across several funding rounds
“It was less than a million dollars over a number of years. A few different rounds, but we did build amazing technology that we have a paid and pending on and stuff.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 2:29 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing

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