Salim Chowdhury
Senior Advisor, ETFuels. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Saalim Chowdhury is the co-founder and former CTO of SkillBridge, an elite freelance talent marketplace acquired by Toptal. He later served as Managing Director of Techstars London and Partner at 500 Startups, and previously worked at ScanSafe prior to its Cisco acquisition.
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Everything Salim Chowdhury said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Chowdhury argues modern consulting firms should be built as digital platforms
“If you were to build either of those businesses today, you'd probably not build them with fancy offices and sort of, ah, you know, rainmaker partners. You'd probably build them as a platform. And in many ways, that's what I think TopTel are doing. They are bas…”
Chowdhury says five-star rating systems fail for elite management consultants
“Management consultants can't really be ranked on a five-star rating. Have you ever met a Harvard business school grad that would generally think, yeah, five stars. That's how I'd rate my work. Does not work in the slightest.”
Chowdhury notes that Toptal accepts only 3% of developer applicants
“Literally, they only have, they genuinely only take the three percent of people that apply for them for their developer, for developers.”
SkillBridge charged a flat 20% take rate on all consulting work
“We basically took a 20% flat fee on any on, on any work that was conducted through the platform.”
SkillBridge had roughly 1,000 clients place projects on its platform
“On, in total, I think there's been just about a, there were about a thousand or so thousands of people who've, who've placed projects on the platform.”
SkillBridge raised less than $2M prior to its acquisition
“It's less than, it's less than two million.”
SkillBridge reached nearly $500,000 in posted projects in March 2016
“If I remember correctly, there were roughly I think just under half a million dollars of projects posted on the platform.”
PwC and Deloitte entered the freelance consulting space by 2016
“PwC have just entered the space. Deloitte have an entry in the space.”
SkillBridge reached a peak team size of just seven employees
“So we, the company had a peak team size of seven.”
SkillBridge consultant pay rates ranged from $100 to $250 per hour
“Pay rates can be anywhere between a hundred to 250 dollars an hour, depending on the seniority.”
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