We also saw an opportunity for a different type of solution than, you know, just the ability to get introductions to connections.

And, you know, we've used other platforms like your Upworks and your Fivers and this and that to hire freelancers in the past.

And those often work quite well for tactical production type support.

And so, yeah, growth match in many ways is our answer to a lot of the challenges we had,

shortcomings we saw in other solutions in the market and also studying, you know, what did we do that did work and how do we productize that?

I'm Shelby Stevens, co-founder and CEO of GrowthMatch.com.

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and today how Shelby Stevens took another swing to start up path

by building the marketplace for fractional experts.

All this and more on Coat Story.

Back in 2019, we had Shelby Stevens on the show to talk about his project called Jolly.

Since that time, the COVID pandemic shut down events and crippled their progress.

They pivoted the product a bit to be sort of an e-commerce-like site for freelancers to offer services.

While they let their Jolly Pivot grow, he and his co-founder started building a new product,

one which allows startup experts to offer their knowledge and experiences in a fractional part-time

manner.

This is the creation story of Growth Match.

Before we jump too far into Growth Match, tell me about Jolly, the state of Jolly.

What's happened since we last chatted?

Sure.

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