Ashik Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Deputy, joins the show with Scott Kitun. Deputy is a company focused around simplifying work life for the shift worker. As an employee management platform, Deputy specializes in timesheets, scheduling, tasks and workplace communication. Ashik shares the founding story starting with his own childhood growing up around shift workers…
CEO of Podia. Lockdowns, shrinking economy, closed gyms and offices have left people to get creative on maintaining their core business or building a new one altogether. It’s part of the reason individuals, small businesses and “solopreneurs” are flocking to Podia, a platform provides a digital storefront to maintain memberships, online courses and transactions. In…
CEO of Stringr. Lindsay Stewart, a former tv news producer, used to sift through limited options for current news video, either their on-site staff, freelancers, or mostly searching the internet and social media channels for the video she was seeking. The struggle to find the right video for her storytelling became the bedrock of her…
Yong Kim, the founder of Wonolo (stands for “Work Now Locally”), set out to create a platform to bring power back to today’s workers. After closing a Series C funding round of $32 million in November 2018, his company is set to lead the wave, empowering freelance and project workers. Yong joined the podcast to…
Today’s workforce values the flexibility and autonomy of project-based work, choosing the gig economy over traditional full-time employment. “This isn’t just for white-collar work — we’re seeing many blue-collar employees adopt this new employment structure,” says Wonolo founder Yong Kim. Wonolo’s platform combines technology, business and human nature to empower part-time workers to choose…
With more information on the shortcomings, as well as the promise of the gig economy, it invites the question: Is on-demand shift work failing, or is it the future? Last year a reported 57 million Americans — over a third of the population — were a part of the gig economy. If…