Outsourcing 2.0: oDesk CEO Gary Swart (Part 2)

Sramana: I just hired somebody on oDesk, and the way I structured the project it paid a fixed amount for a project to transcribe 30 interviews. It is staff augmentation, because I need that flexible resource to be able to augment my staff. Gary Swart: You can use it that way; however, the genesis of

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Outsourcing 2.0: oDesk CEO Gary Swart (Part 1)

Sramana: Hi, Gary. Would you begin by talking about the genesis of your story? Gary Swart: Odysseas Tsatalos and Stratis Karamanlakis, two Greeks, wanted to work together. Odysseas had co-founded Intacct, which was an accounting company, and he had always wanted to hire his friend, Stratis, who lived in Greece.