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Adam Stone

VP of AI Products, LeapXpert · 1 appearance on the record.

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Adam Stone is an Australian tech entrepreneur who founded Speedlancer, a fast-turnaround freelance marketplace backed by 500 Startups, earning him a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list. He later co-founded StartADAM, a cross-platform messaging and AI collaboration software company acquired by LeapXpert in 2025.

10statements → 5claims → 4claims resolved → 25%fully supported → 3.7/5average certainty → 1.5/5average debate potential →

1 supported 1 partly supported 2 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

5 assertions · 5 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Adam argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Stone: Speedlancer is first freelance marketplace to integrate into Trello
“Speedlancer already plugs into Trello now using StartAtom. And so you can set up a Trello board and send tasks to Speedlancer from Trello. And we're the first marketplace to do that.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 8:39 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Stone: Trello App Store randomizes listings in communication category
“What I do know about Trello in particular is there's a randomization component, which to me is really nice because it means that they give everyone the opportunity. So if you click on the communication category, I think you said in two categories, they give yo…”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 11:54 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Adam Stone on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Adam Stone said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Start Adam shifts from per-user to communication-based pricing to drive adoption
“Yeah, we were looking at user-based pricing. And now I think we're looking at we want to incentivize all users in a company to use it. So we're not so much looking at user-based pricing. Now it's more communication-based pricing.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 3:51 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Assertion Supported
Stone: Speedlancer is first freelance marketplace to integrate into Trello
“Speedlancer already plugs into Trello now using StartAtom. And so you can set up a Trello board and send tasks to Speedlancer from Trello. And we're the first marketplace to do that.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 8:39 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Disclosure
Adam Stone halts Speedlancer acquisition spend due to crowded freelance market
“Right now, we're in the ramping down stage. So I think it's going to look like this for Speedlancer, like an arc where Speedlancer will come back once we own the distribution channel, because I don't really want to be paying for acquisition right now in such a…”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 9:09 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Assertion Contradicted
Stone: Trello App Store randomizes listings in communication category
“What I do know about Trello in particular is there's a randomization component, which to me is really nice because it means that they give everyone the opportunity. So if you click on the communication category, I think you said in two categories, they give yo…”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 11:54 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Assertion Contradicted
Adam Stone: Speedlancer was likely the first verticalized freelance marketplace after Fiverr
“And in 2015, there was no verticalized freelancing marketplaces. We were probably the first one after Fiverr, I guess, if you count them as verticalized.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 2:08 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Disclosure
Adam Stone is winding down Speedlancer to focus on Start Adam SaaS
“It's operating, but to be honest, we're winding it down as we're focusing on the SAS.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 4:17 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Assertion Partly supported
Stone: Total funding across Speedlancer and Start Adam is approximately $1.9M
“1.9 or something like that.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 5:37 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Disclosure
Start Adam plans to integrate freelance services back into its SaaS
“Although we're building a SAS now, our long-term vision is that we reintegrate services into it.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 7:32 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Start Adam generates 700+ installs from Trello App Store
“We've had like, 700 or more to date over the last couple of months.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 10:52 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing
Disclosure
Adam Stone: Speedlancer raised under $1M across several funding rounds
“It was less than a million dollars over a number of years. A few different rounds, but we did build amazing technology that we have a paid and pending on and stuff.”
Adam Stone Feb 17, 2023 ▶ 2:29 $1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
$1m Raised, 800 Users, Here's how he's launching pricing Feb 17, 2023 9m
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