Pujji: Growth Assistant Output Stalled for Months While Infrastructure Costs Surged
Jesse Poogee · How My Company Went From Zero to a $10 Million Run Rate · Oct 16, 2023 · at 23:55
Jesse Pujji, founder of Gateway X and co-founder of Growth Assistant, explains the organizational growing pains and margin compression encountered while scaling the offshore talent business toward $50M in revenue.
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“The reality is the actual output of the business has not increased very much in the last, call it six to eight months, but the costs have gone up a lot.”
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