White: WriterAccess pivoted from transactional marketplace to SaaS model
Byron White · 1387 He's Paid $15m+ to Freelance Writers in Past 12 Months · May 12, 2019 · at 4:03
Byron White, founder of WriterAccess, details the company's business model evolution from transactional commissions to software subscriptions.
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“For the first five or six years of our eight years of operations, we were a pure marketplace transactional business. In the last year, we made a pivot over to SaaS, where we're now charging a fee to use our technology and access various levels of talent in our pool.”
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