Industry Leaders Debate The Jason Chicola Approach To Hiring
JasonChicola of Rev.com joins the podcast to talk about his experience as an entrepreneur, as well as the education process that has prepared him. Customers of Rev started a petition on November 11 calling for Rev's CEO JasonChicola to pay freelance workers fairly for the time they put into transcribing. The petition is looking for 600 signatures, and has gotten over 500 at the time of this article. JasonChicola, a gig economy pioneer turned voice AI entrepreneur, is the Founder and CEO of Rev. AI, in its imperfections, is mirroring our own imperfections. At the CogX Festival @Egon Zehnder~s Technology Practice leader Sven Petersen moderated the “Bias in, bias out: Getting the next 10 years of speaking to machines right” panel, an intense discussion that’s critical for business... JasonChicola is the founder and CEO of Rev.Prior to starting Rev, Jason was the 3rd employee at Upwork (Nasdaq: UPWK), the largest online labor marketplace. Jason has also worked in private equity (H.I.G. Capital), venture capital (Globespan Capital), and consulting (McKinsey). Chicola started the site with co-founder and former oDesk colleague Josh Breinlinger in 2010. They were joined by other MIT classmates who built this platform, which now specializes in transcription, captions, foreign subtitles, and document translation. He has also been involved in investing, both as an angel investor of several companies and as an Investment Professional at H.I.G. Jason has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Economics from MIT.
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