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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

All right, guys, good morning, everyone.

My guest today is Fred Steven Smith.

He's a CEO and co-founder of Rainforest,

which is a QA testing platform. We'll jump into it today. He spends all of his time driving the company

to build a better, faster way to do QA while remaining a place that people love to work at.

Since Rainforest's early days at Y Combinator in 2012, he's led the company through rapid

growth building not only a QA platform that leverages both crowdsourcing and machine learning to accelerate testing,

but also a team across 16 countries on five different continents. We'll jump into how he

manages that. He's originally from England, has an economics and politics degree from the

University of Warwick. When not a rainforest, he can be found in the natural force of California, trying not to

crash his dirt bike.

Frederick, you ready to take us to the top?

Yep.

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