SkillBridge had roughly 1,000 clients place projects on its platform
Salim Chowdhury · EP 314: He Just Sold His Company SkillBridge.co, But Why? · Jun 23, 2016 · at 8:01
Salim Chowdhury details marketplace supply and demand metrics on SkillBridge to Nathan Latka.
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“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.”
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