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David Head

Endorsed.ai

Y Combinator

Showspace Founder: Helping professionals get jobs!

San Francisco, CA, United States

About Me

I started my career as a web agency owner in college building many portfolio websites. After I graduated, I founded a freelance marketplace called Sixty that got funded by Y Combinator. We served over 3,000 clients globally across 72 service verticals. I've also worked at two other VC-backed recruitment platforms, one where I was the second employee and Head of Marketplace called Laskie (acquired by X/Twitter 2.0), then most recently leading product and writing algorithms to match professionals with jobs at Braintrust, a Tiger Global-backed unicorn. Now I'm building Showspace to be the simplest and most effective portfolio builder to boost careers with.

Featured Portfolio

Video Embeds & Click-to-Zoom on Images

Video Embeds & Click-to-Zoom on Images

A problem with Showspace was the limited media support. Users couldn't embed videos or click-to-enlarge images. Now more projects are able to find a home on Showspace.

Upgraded AI to ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo Model

Upgraded AI to ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo Model

Increasing draft project generation times by ~2x, reducing from ~60 to ~25 seconds while also substantially improving response quality.

User profiles and named URLs added to portfolios

User profiles and named URLs added to portfolios

Updated the Showspace app to include a Profile section within the user portfolios. Updates included location, intro, social links, avatars, cover images, and named URLs.

Growth-Blocking Bug Patched in 15 Minutes

Growth-Blocking Bug Patched in 15 Minutes

After 15-20 hours of effort to patch a bug causing nearly every new user to drop off, Jason solved the problem in 15 minutes.

Making Work Accomplishments Visible

Making Work Accomplishments Visible

Launched Showspace, a web app for people to showcase past work history, projects, and accomplishments with ease and to promote their professional brand and get discovered!

On-Demand Web App Help

On-Demand Web App Help

Hire a freelancer to solve any problem via screen-share. Pay by-the-minute. Served 3,000+ clients across 72 service verticals including design, engineering, analytics, and more.

Showcase

Showcase

Featured portfolio items from top freelancers and agencies. Created hundreds of landing pages programmatically for SEO to sustain 30% WoW growth.

Hire

Hire

A tool for clients to find freelancers to hire, with a matchmaking and budget recommendation feature that live-updates while clients fill out their project briefs.

Directory

Directory

Browse a directory of every freelancer and agency online. Solves the problem of searching for freelancers across dozens of websites.

Insights

Insights

A tool for freelancers to gauge economic opportunity across granular dimensions like skills, client types, and more. Also features competitive intel like rates and project lengths.

High Volume Custom CRM

High Volume Custom CRM

Existing tools did a bad job at tracking a large volume of in-progress orders. So we built an internal tool to show the live progress of each client request.

Haven Luxury Lifestyle Events

Haven Luxury Lifestyle Events

Haven hosts exclusive luxury lifestyle events that represent the nexus of style, sound and substance for exceptional young professionals.

Automating Business Valuations with Machine Learning

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