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Grindr: Joel Simkhai

How I Built This with Guy Raz

CHAPTER

The Importance of Outsourcing

I didn't have a technical co-founder. So I had another childhood friend, Evette Pasquat, who worked at a consulting firm down in Costa Rica. And through her consulting shop, they developed to the app. They had developers for the iOS eventually. Android and Blackberry. You outsourced the maintenance of the app to this group of code developers in Costa Rican. That's right. But did you ever think, you know, I just got to get everyone in this office? Or was it more sense to you to just kind of do patchwork? Like, we'll outsource this. We'll outsource that. We'll just patch these holes like that.

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