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Toptal

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 23, 2016 by Salim Chowdhury · said 611 times in 129 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (581), Salim Chowdhury (11), Adam Tishman (10), Sean Livermore (7), Dante Colombatti (1), Andrew Warner (1)

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2016 538 mentions in 88 episodes 6 per episode

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Jun 23, 2016 positive
Insight
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…”
Salim Chowdhury Jun 23, 2016 ▶ 17:43 EP 314: He Just Sold His Company SkillBridge.co, But Why?
Jun 23, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
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.”
Salim Chowdhury Jun 23, 2016 ▶ 12:00 EP 314: He Just Sold His Company SkillBridge.co, But Why?
Jun 24, 2017 neutral
Assertion Supported
Gillivan: FreeeUp focuses on e-commerce and marketing, unlike Toptal
“TopTal is more focused on your higher level developer and designer. Our workers are more specialized within e-commerce business operations, and then also digital marketing.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 5:17 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Sep 23, 2018 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Masood: Freelance developers regularly cross-list across Toptal and Tara
“We have TopTile developers on our platform too. It's not like every developer just joins one platform. They usually join multiple.”
Iba Masood Sep 23, 2018 ▶ 19:15 1156 YC Alum Burning $110k/mo in Cash To Scope Projects and Place Dev Talent Using Machine Learning
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