What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Roger Dickey as Founder
About the Company
Gigster does software development on demand. Get a quote in 10 minutes for any app or web project. MIT, Caltech, and Google engineering talent. Backed by a16z, Greylock, Y Combinator and Bloomberg Beta.
About the Person
Roger Dickey is a serial entrepreneur & active angel investor based in San Francisco. Roger's first company was an AirBnB for tutoring started in Austin in 2006. He entered the games industry in 2007 with a Facebook app startup, launching 19 apps with the largest generating 300M+ pageviews per month. After an acquisition by Zynga, Roger went on to found Mafia Wars (100M users), FishVille (35M users), and 5 other titles in his 3 years there. Roger served as an international product team advisor for Zynga helping the company grow their games in India, Japan and China. Since leaving Zynga, Roger has launched Gigster, a marketplace for software development services.
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