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# startup-origin — 18 quotes

STARTUP-ORIGIN

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We built 15Five because we believed that if you give employees 15 minutes a week to share what is on their mind, managers can spend 5 minutes reading it and transform the entire relationship.

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We started Leapsome because we saw that the tools companies used for people development were either too complex or too shallow. There was nothing that actually helped managers become better.

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Hourly workers are 80 percent of the global workforce and they have been completely ignored by enterprise software. We are building for them.

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We built Ashby because every recruiting tool we used felt like it was designed in 2005 and never updated. Recruiters deserve better software.

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Recruiting is the most important function in any company and it has the worst software. That gap is what Gem exists to close.

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I grew up in a small town in Michigan. I watched kids from wealthy families get internships through connections while everyone else got nothing. Handshake exists to fix that.

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There are millions of brilliant engineers in countries where the local job market cannot absorb them. Turing connects that talent to companies that desperately need it.

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Freelancing had a reputation problem. People associated it with cheap work and missed deadlines. We built Toptal to prove that freelance talent can be elite.

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Companies want remote engineers but they do not want to deal with international payroll, compliance, and time zones. Terminal handles all of that.

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Insurance has not changed since the 1950s. You still fill out the same forms your grandparents did. We are fixing that.

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When the gig economy exploded, insurance did not keep up. A delivery driver should not have to pay the same premium as someone who drives once a week.

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We built Zego because we saw friends delivering food on bikes and scooters with zero insurance. One accident could bankrupt them.

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We started by selling a few restaurant supplies out of a small warehouse in Lancaster. Fifty years later we ship to every state in the country. The secret is simple. Keep prices low and ship fast.

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Indian insurance forms were 15 pages long. We cut them to one. That single decision changed everything about how people felt about buying insurance.

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We printed our first permitted home in America in 2018. It took 48 hours and cost a fraction of traditional construction. The housing industry has not been the same since.

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We started Mighty Buildings because traditional construction wastes 30 percent of all materials. Our factory process cuts that waste to near zero.

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We watched construction sites bleed money every single day in architecture school. The waste was not accidental. It was structural. That is what Cover fixes.

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We built our first grain auger in a Winnipeg basement because Massey Harris would not give Peter Pakosh a promotion. Their loss became the foundation of a tractor company.