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From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: I have a slightly different kind of question. You are a developer who turned into a successful entrepreneur. You have a real insight into how a developer becomes an entrepreneur. Torc is working on the basis of equipping developers to be freelancers and blossom their careers. Given what’s going on in the world
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How big is the developer community now? Michael Morris: It’s about 2,600 people. We’re still getting off the ground. Out of that, about 500 are vetted. These are people who have gone through our assessment process, built their profiles, linked up their GitHub accounts, and installed and started using our productivity tool. Sramana
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me what is the beginning of Torc. How much funding did Frank put in? Michael Morris: That was an important piece for me. Through my experiences at Appirio and Topcoder, I knew about the effort it takes to fundraise. I was concerned about it. I didn’t want to spend all my time
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Is it all word-of-mouth that developers found out about you? Michael Morris: Word-of-mouth. I referenced that Social Network movie because it mostly started in Computer Science departments at universities across the globe. Once we got a foothold in the US, it started going globally. Once we went global, it expanded. There was a
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Michael Morris: This would be the end of 2001. A group of us stayed on for a little bit, then we left. We went and started a company called Topcoder. The whole idea was to build a community for software developers to compete and earn
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 1)
Michael has not only transitioned successfully from a developer to an entrepreneur, but he has also built communities of developers and 2-sided marketplaces around them over and again. Torc is his third run at this overall mission of enabling and empowering developers to have great careers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of
