Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 02:48PM Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower #154 Bonus
Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower #154 Bonus
While at Google HQ, Jason sat down with Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower to talk about the global crowd sourced marketplace, the future of outsourced labor and the dynamics of a free market.
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0:00-1:00 Welcome to Lukas Biewald of CrowdFlower.
1:00-1:30 What is the mission of your company today?
1:30-2:15 So an example would be if someone wants to verify that the number to a local pizzeria is correct?
2:15-3:30 So you find people that need work done, determine a currency and then match them with a company?
3:30-4:00 People don't have to verify who they are though, right? They just have to take the test?
4:00-4:30 So we look at the same photo and compare the answer?
4:30-4:45 What is the average session that someone works?
4:45-5:30 Do you think it's work or more of a diversionary task?
5:30-6:00 Do you think Google and Flickr use this to tag photos?
6:00-6:45 What kind of jobs do the companies come to you with?
6:45-7:00 Did Amazon create Mechanical Turk for their own use?
7:00-8:30 How do you as a founder look at the global marketplace at determine wages?
8:30-9:30 What's the state of the company? Have you raised money?
9:30-10:00 Who are your investors? How many employees?
10:00-11:15 What's the future of crowd sourcing? Will more and more jobs go this way?
11:15-13:00 What's a task that you tried to do that failed?
13:00-14:30 Do you believe that in a global marketplace like this that people should be able to work for whatever wage they want or do you believe in set minimum wages?
14:30-15:00 Should there be a minimum wage?
15:00-15:45 Have any clients tried to price things so low that people don't show up?
15:45-16:15 Lukas, I wish you continued success.
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