“We handle about Four to five billion messages a month.”
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PredictionNot checkable as stated
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.”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 38:44Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
PredictionNot checkable as stated
Messaging-based chatbots will replace many standalone apps
“A lot of apps will get actually replaced by messaging based chatbots and so on.”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 36:41Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
PredictionNot checkable as stated
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…”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 39:52Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
Insight
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…”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 46:48Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
AssertionContradicted
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…”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 20:01Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
AssertionPartly supported
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?”
Beerud ShethNov 30, 2020▶ 25:27Beerud Sheth on building Elance (nowUpwork) & Gupshup
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