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Lauren Wilson: Answer Media manages 200 freelance creators with three staff

Lauren Wilson · 1134 Ad Network Pivots to On Demand Video Generation · Sep 1, 2018 · at 12:01

Lauren Wilson, co-founder and CEO of Answer Media, explains the operational structure of the company's decentralized virtual video creation studio.

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“So we've got about 200 contributors across the country. These are freelancers that are mobile and can be anywhere that we need to be. otherwise we've got a very small team of about three folks that are running that.”

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