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Adam Jackson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
632 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

There's now seven core teams, so little companies that kind of like spend a lot of energy and resources building Braintrust.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Those seven core teams probably have like 30, 35, 40 or so full-time employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And so it's a relatively small- Total or each?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Total, total, total.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So it's a relatively small core group, but then you have 40 something thousand people in the community all contributing at some level, whether it's writing- Which of those cores are you part of?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Yeah, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's my core team.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's called Freelance Labs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

You got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's about 20 of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

We have a software development firm that makes money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

It's a dev shop just like anybody else's.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Most of the other nodes are either dev shops or sales groups that make money off servicing clients.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

The whole point of a user-owned network is to build the network as a public good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

In our case, the public good is...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

connect clients with the talent that need them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

And so it's built and maintained and upgraded by our talent, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

Which is, it could either be, you know, individual freelancers who write code or design UI or write product specs or groups like agencies like mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
He Converted SaaS to Blockchain, Now $230m Market Cap to Kill Fiverr

So the investors, the purchasers in those rounds were purchasing tokens.