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Interviews with startup founders in all sorts of industries and regions to expand our definition, thinking of what is a startup. Learn from their journey and apply it to your own startup.
S3E4 Founding Gigster and Made Renovation, an Interview with Roger Dickey
Founders with Pek
36 minutes 57 seconds
4 years ago
S3E4 Founding Gigster and Made Renovation, an Interview with Roger Dickey
Roger Dickey is the Co-Founder of MADE. Roger is a serial entrepreneur & active angel investor based in San Francisco. Roger's first company was an AirBnB for tutoring started in Austin in 2006.He entered the games industry in 2007 with a Facebook app startup, launching 19 apps with the largest generating 300M+ page views per month. After an acquisition by Zynga, Roger went on to found Mafia Wars (100M users), FishVille (35M users), and 5 other titles in his 3 years there. Roger served as an international product team advisor for Zynga helping the company grow its games in India, Japan, and China. Since leaving Zynga, Roger has launched Gigster, a marketplace for software development services. Alongside his work at Zynga, Roger began advising & investing in bay-area startups in 2010. His investments include Docker, Addepar, iCracked, OpenGov, ClassDojo, and Wanelo. Advisory roles include Formation 8, Nest, OpenDoor, and The Thiel Fellowship.
In this episode, we talked about:
Made Renovation and how it serves people
Made Renovation’s satisfied customers
Roger’s team and system
Their all-in-one renovation system
Overcoming market risks
His career as a CEO and Co-founder in Gigster
What drove Roger to start Gigster
Founding Mafia Wars
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Interviews with startup founders in all sorts of industries and regions to expand our definition, thinking of what is a startup. Learn from their journey and apply it to your own startup.
