Everything Beerud Sheth said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Very soon, all workers will operate as remote freelancers
“Very soon we'll get to a world where everyone who's working will be working from home and working as a freelancer of sorts right now, you may have a long-term contract, but you're still working remote work.”
Messaging-based chatbots will replace many standalone apps
“A lot of apps will get actually replaced by messaging based chatbots and so on.”
Future generations will view physical offices and factories as obsolete
“You know, the next generation, like our kids will wonder saying people used to go to something called a factory or an office. What does that mean? Because, you know, you bring the office into the home and you work wherever you are. I mean, you could live in Go…”
Grinding 15 hours a day on micro-tasks kills startups
“Usually it's not the small stuff that will kill you. It's the big stuff that will kill companies. So So really there used to be a time that I used to think, oh, if I work, you know, 15 hours a day, or when I used to I drive, you know, that would be, that would…”
Elance is the only late-90s gig economy startup to survive
“We were literally the only company from that era
That has survived, right?
Like freelance you know, we founded it in December of 98.
Right.
And there were there were a few other companies.
There was one called guru.
There were some one called moonlighter and a…”
Gupshup reached 70M Indian users when Facebook and Twitter had 1M
“And it actually grew to seventy million users in India at a time where Facebook and Twitter had only like one million users in India, right?”
Gupshup generates well over $100 million in annual revenue
“We are well over a hundred million dollars in revenue.”
Gupshup has remained profitable without major funding since 2011
“Our last round was in 2011, right? It was a ten million dollar round. And since then we've you know, we've been profitable for a very long time. We haven't done any major funding rounds.”
Conversational interfaces are the most flexible foundation for digital commerce
“And I think conversations is the thing that becomes you know, the lowest common denominator. Again, it's sort of the most universal thing because it is the most flexible. It can take care of every situation, right?”
Indian education cultivates herd mentality over multidimensional reality
“The consequence of it is most people don't think what they want to do. You just sort of follow the, you know, follow the herd, if you will, you know, everybody, you know, oftentimes people do what their friends are doing or what you're, you know, what is highl…”
Pre-merger, Elance focused on fixed-price projects while oDesk targeted hourly
“The difference was Elance focused on fixed price projects while Odesk focused on hourly projects, right?”
Gupshup processes four to five billion messages every month
“We handle about Four to five billion messages a month.”
Elance scaled to 20 employees in a two-bedroom NYC apartment
“We grew to about 20 people in this two bedroom apartment”
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