The company behind Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret – with Mark Sears

Mark Sears, CloudFactory, B2B, Marketing, Outsourcing, System

There’s a dirty little secret in tech, in Silicon Valley, and I bought into it.

The idea is that you use an app to take a photo of a receipt and it magically gets transcribed into the expense app you’re using. It feels like a machine but it’s not. The magic is that it’s actually people who are doing the transcription.

The guest you’re meeting today is a guy who runs a company that does this stuff for other companies.

Mark Sears is the founder of CloudFactory, which provides on-demand API driven workforces to scale your business in the cloud.

Mark Sears

CloudFactory

Mark Sears is the founder of CloudFactory, which provides on-demand API driven workforces to scale your business in the cloud.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com.

There’s a dirty little secret of the internet of tech, of Silicon Valley, and I bought into it. The idea is that you use an app, you take a picture of something and magically it gets transcribed, like if you take a picture of a receipt, it magically transcribes into the expense app that you’re using, or if you record an interview like this and there’s someone who does a transcript, it feels actually like it’s a machine does it, like there’s some OCR that really takes that receipt, takes that piece of paper and transcribes it. But it’s not. It’s people. The magic is people.

And the guest who you’re meeting today is a guy who runs a company that basically does a lot of this stuff for other companies, companies that you know. You’ve probably used him indirectly and didn’t even know about it. His name is Mark Sears. He is...

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