Turing - On A Mission
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Turing - On A Mission

I invest in and advise mission-driven founders because, when you’re on a mission, you’re often driven by the fire of personal experience. Personal experience inspired the founders of Change.org and Indiegogo, where their missions are broad, as well as the founders of Mosaic and LUS Brands, where their experience and missions are more specific. Today I am excited to share my investment in Turing, a company dedicated to the focused mission of changing the way companies are built by solving the Silicon Valley talent shortage.

The founders, Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, started Turing to solve the pain they experienced with their previous company, Rover. While running Rover, frustrated with the challenges of affordably sourcing top Silicon Valley talent, Jonathan and Vijay began to look overseas. They discovered incredible engineers in locales around the world who, with a little training, quickly adapted to Silicon Valley standards and pace. After selling Rover to RevContent in 2017 they joined the RevContent team — but realized that the way they had solved their own talent shortage could perhaps be useful to the many other companies experiencing the same pain, and so left RevContent to start Turing. 

Turing’s mission is to connect Silicon Valley companies with elite, pre-vetted software engineers from around the world. They expect this to not only have an impact on the way Silicon Valley builds companies, but also to positively influence the lives of engineers and their communities in their home countries — giving them an exciting and compelling second mission of social impact.

For my founder and investor friends, keep Turing in mind. In addition to affordably helping you accelerate product cycles (massive in and of itself), you get the added benefit of diversity: “Teams that also include a wide range of ages and different geographic locations make better business decisions 87% of the time” (Forbes). Turing can bring you that advantage. 

For those of you looking to join an exciting mission-driven company in its early days, Turing is hiring: https://turing.com

Patrick Brady-Grant

EU Marketing Manager - Digital/Paid Media Manager

4y

Looks promising, I will have to share with our CTO.

David Stepania

Founder @ ThirstySprout I Building Homebase | Bootstrapped 2 companies - $100M+ in rev

5y

I'm on that same mission

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