Episode Details

This week we discuss LinkedIn’s new marketplace, Platform9, TriggerMesh and Event-based Architectures. Plus, are meetings always bad?

Rundown

• LinkedIn is building a gig marketplace. What you need to know.
• Microsoft’s New Gig: A LinkedIn Freelancer Market Rivaling Upwork, Fiverr
• Platform9 Raises Additional Series-D Funding
• HEY World experiment

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