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I did´n like the video, a very poor quality. So i read just the excerpts. Nice observations. Good story. But they did well for around 10 years. I don´t think they were a startup anymore.

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I listened to the audio version. The quality was good. There were a lot of good lessons from him and I thank him for sharing. I would have been interested in hearing more about the Rent-a-Coder developers he hired and how to better utilize the one-time hire system. As a freelancer on oDesk, I would also be interested in knowing if he thought he saved money in the long-run by only paying about $8-10/hour or if it would have been cheaper to hire someone more expensive but who could get the work done faster and better.

For those that didn't watch/listen, one of the problems he mentioned was having a bunch of different developers working on their website which caused it to turn into a big mess after some time.

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