Adam Jackson, Founder & CEO of Braintrust

<p>In this episode, Mike Townsend sits down with Adam Jackson, Founder &amp; CEO of Braintrust. <br/><br/>Adam believes that the way we work is broken. In fact, it’s been broken for a long time now, which is why he founded Braintrust, the world’s first user-controlled talent platform-- one that aligns incentives, removes expensive middlemen and gives value and control back to Talent and Organizations. <br/><br/>Braintrust’s unique business model allows talent to retain 100% of their market rate and enables organizations to spin up flexible teams and make their budgets go 2-3x further by cutting out the middlemen.<br/><br/>Adam is a serial technology entrepreneur and investor and has spent his career creating and deploying capital into software systems that make complex tasks simple and intuitive. He has founded 4 VC-backed companies and an asset management company over the last 16 years.<br/><br/>In August 2017 he co-founded Cambrian Asset Management, a blockchain asset management company.  <br/><br/>In 2012, he also co-founded and served as CEO of Doctor On Demand, a healthcare service that provides Video Visits with board-certified physicians and psychologists. Doctor On Demand delivers services through employers, health systems, health plans, and directly to consumers and has raised $165M in VC.<br/><br/>His previous business, DriverSide was founded in 2007 and was acquired by Advance Auto Parts in September of 2011. Adam&apos;s first venture-backed business, MarketSquare, founded in 2004, was the first online local shopping destinations on the Internet. It was acquired by Intuit in September of 2006.<br/><br/>Jackson is an angel investor in 100+ companies/projects, including Eco, Collective, Ethereum, Bolt, Placer, Aktana, Skale Labs, Protocol Labs, JCTurbo, Apero Health, Rapportive, MyTime, Automatic, Womply, Superhuman and Zenefits.</p>