Do programmers need brokers? A）

Not long ago, Stephen Bradley, a technology entrepreneur in New York, was planning to expand his company's Authorbee. Authorbee can aggregate Twitter and Instagram posts in the form of stories where the reader is not a person, but rather their interest, such as the "poison Doctor" or the New England Patriots. Bradley is not the founder of a typical start-up--those who wear hoodie-dropping students who have been steeped in technology and media for decades. To launch Authorbee, he melted 750,000 dollars from angel investors and then developed prototypes from Pakistani and Bangladeshi photo programmers. Now, he wants to make the site bigger and better, so he has to get someone to write code and build Authorbee DNA. Those in Pakistan's Bengal are fine, too, but cultural differences and language barriers can weigh on progress. What he needs is "a really good developer," a developer who can master all the programming languages and frameworks used by Authorbee: Python, Django, angular, JavaScript, and Twitter APIs. Looking for a development talent is Bradley in the process of entrepreneurship is the most afraid of one thing. "It's a nightmare."

He posted a job posting on the AngelList website, and the phone-outsourcing company's Mail rushed in like a flood, wanting to open a "short online conference call." "I've got almost 200 resumes on my desk," Bradley said. But he knows that the people behind these resumes are not what he wants. His dream developer may be buried inside, but Bradley thinks the developers are like social media: "90% is rubbish." The whole problem was hard to wade through in the noise. ”

Finally, Bradley received a 10x mail from the talent company. 10x, founded by two entertainment brokers Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, has been acting as a rock star for the past 19 years, including John Mayer and Vanessa Carlton. Recently, with the rise of the digital revolution and the decline of the music industry, the two men began to try to be brokers of technical experts. 10x's name comes from a popular claim in the tech world that the best programmers are superstars, with a productivity equivalent to 10 times times that of peers. "Silicon Valley" in the United States, called the role of Big head to compliment his friend's programming skills, said:

Richard is 10xer, and I'm a xer at best.

Programmer's agent: Bradley is interested. So one day last month he went to the 10x headquarters in downtown Manhattan to talk to Michael Solomon. Solomon is a rock-and-roll outfit: wearing jeans, metal bracelets and a mellow voice. His office has guitars, platinum records and posters with the autograph of Green Day and Bruce Springsteen.

But Bradley is only interested in one question: Are there any Solomon so-called "top developers in the world" in the 10x talent pool?

Solomon the technical performance by selling the album or by singing with Lady Gaga. He said one of his clients had been responsible for the user experience design of Apple icloud. "Have you ever heard of Django?" "The Django Joint developer is also my client." (Note: The framework used to develop Instagram)

This way of presentation left a deep impression on Bradley.

Bradley a list of all the languages and features used in his website development. "These are running on Amazon," he says of the company's cloud computing service AWS.

Solomon body to the back of the chair, and then looked at his client's Metal card box. "I definitely have some ideas," he said after a moment: "The first person I thought of was a bioinformatics scholar." "Then he quickly uttered a bewildering array of achievements: In Scripps Research Cato, who lived in La Jolla, was trying to tackle complex biological problems through crowdsourcing, and had developed a Twitter tool that could be influential enough to elect. Solomon thinks he might be interested in Authorbee using Twitter as a tool. He knows the Twitter API even when he's asleep. ”

"What's the scope of his offer?" Bradley asked.

"The time you ask for this role is between 150 and 250 dollars," he said. ”

This price is much higher than Bradley in Pakistan (the lowest hourly rate is about 25 dollars). But Bradley that the price is worth it. "Does it contain your 15%?" He asked.

Solomon said yes, then the two sides shook hands and traded.

To be Continued ...