Toptal is an American company that provides freelance software engineers, designers, and finance experts to companies. The company has received coverage for being a completely virtual organization without any offices.
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History and operations
The company was founded in 2010 by Taso Du Val, who serves as the company's CEO and Breanden Beneschott, who was a student at Princeton at the time. The original business model was to provide highly skilled software engineers to large corporate clients. The company reportedly has over 2,000 clients.
On October 7, 2015, Toptal announced the launch of Toptal Designers, to provide software designers to clients. In November 2015, Toptal was also ranked the #1 fastest growing talent marketplace in North America by consulting firm Deloitte.
In April 2016, Toptal acquired SkillBridge an online platform for business freelancers, for an undisclosed sum. Toptal described the purpose of the acquisition as a way to "catalyze and accelerate [Toptal's] launch into the business talent category".
The company's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Adam D'Angelo of Quora, and Ryan Rockefeller. Toptal clients include Airbnb, JPMorgan Chase, IDEO, Axel Springer SE, Pfizer, and Rand McNally. Toptal has no offices and is a completely remote team distributed throughout the world.
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Controversy
In July 2013, LinkedIn started removing Toptal ads that featured professional headshots of women in response to complaints by LinkedIn members about the images. LinkedIn asked Toptal to use different images which related to the product advertised. Toptal responded that although they did use some stock photos of women, at least one was a real engineer. Toptal labelled the removals an example of sexism in the technology industry. LinkedIn restored the ads shortly after, maintaining that the ads were rejected in error.
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External links
- Official website
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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