Jul 25, 2021
Today's guest is Callum Adamson. Despite growing up in the
shadow of a rockstar father Big country musician Stuart Adamson),
Callum was actually raised in a household with little money. After
dropping out of an Aeronautical Engineering degree, he worked
unpaid at a friend's startup and slept on his floor.
During this period, Callum considered the broken tech talent model.
Businesses big and small now need to change at such speed that they
cannot find the skilled workers to do this quickly enough without
paying extortionate fixed costs for large consultancies.
To address this issue, Callum founded Distributed using profits
from Bitcoin investing. From a London HQ, Distributed uses its
AI-enabled platform to project manage a global community of
on-demand, highly skilled software developers. This connects
skilled tech workers with customers such as Capita and the Ministry
of Justice. They can tap into the community and use as much or as
little resource as they like at any one time – for simple or
complex projects – offering the time and cost flexibility of
freelancers with the capacity and quality assurance of
consultancies.
As a result of these trends and efforts, Distributed just completed
a Series A funding round and continues to grow rapidly, expand its
freelance community and deliver projects for more businesses.
We discuss why the tech skills gap is an illusion and how the world
is full of undervalued and poorly organized resources. We also talk
about why freelancing will become the preferred profession. With
the advent of remote workforces and increased flexibility, people
will realize they can work for multiple clients and get paid more
than traditional employment.
I learn how Distributed aims to provide its community with perks and career development you wouldn't usually get as a freelancer.