Michael Sacca (Crew.co) - How Side Projects Saved My Startup
VentureForth - Adventures in Startups
English - January 10, 2017 08:49 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsTechnology Business Investing entrepreneurship founder investing product startups venturecapital ventureforth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Michael Sacca is the newly minted President of Crew.co, a platform for hiring trusted creative professionals. The Montreal-based company was formerly known as “Oomph”, and has raised about $14M to date.
In this episode, we learn about how Michael got the top job at Crew and how pursuing side projects saved the company from obscurity to becoming the best place to build your projects.
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Follow Michael on Twitter @michaelsacca and read his blog.
Michael's favorite book: The Social History of the Machine Gun
Something Michael strongly believes: Not everybody should try to be an entrepreneur.
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Executive producer & host: Joe Mahavuthivanij
Edited by: Joe Mahavuthivanij
Theme music by: Music for Makers
Logo design: Debra Lin