Guru.com

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Websoft, Inc.
TypePrivately held company
IndustryInternet
Service Marketplace
Workforce Management
Crowdsourcing
Founded1998; 24 years ago (1998) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
FounderInder Guglani
HeadquartersPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Websitewww.guru.com

Guru.com is a freelance marketplace.[1] It allows companies to find freelance workers for commissioned work. Founded in 1998 in Pittsburgh as eMoonlighter.com and still headquartered there.

History[]

Guru Inc. was founded in 1999[2] in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M in angel funding and a further $16M in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital.[2] In a May 2000 interview, Paul Saffo cited Guru.com as an example of a company using the Internet to provide new kinds of services where individuals negotiated directly with potential employers.[3]

In May 2001, Ray Marcy, who had been the CEO at Spherion, a Florida staffing company, became CEO of Guru Inc. He hired industrial psychologist Janz and Dan Crow to develop new software.[4]

In February 2002, Guru unveiled its SmartMatch technology, which matched résumés and other information about job applicants to jobs.[5] The company also developed a candidate profiling system using techniques from Industrial and organizational psychology to better understand a candidate's suitability for a particular job.

The company was acquired[6] in December 2002 by Unicru, a human resources software company based in Portland, Oregon. Guru's technology and staff remained with Unicru. Guru has overall, received an approximate of $41 million in funding.

Merger & Present day[]

Unicru sold the Guru.com domain name and logo to eMoonlighter.com, and eMoonlighter was renamed Guru.com.[7]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Guru.com puts freelancers to work Archived 2008-05-24 at the Wayback Machine – PC World
  2. ^ a b "The New-Boy Network, E-Commerce Article". Inc.com. 2000-01-01. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  3. ^ Walker, Leslie (May 18, 2000). "Discussion with Paul Saffo, Director, Institute For The Future". The Washington Post.
  4. ^ Clifford, Stephanie (July 2002). "Guru's Gamble". Business 2.0.
  5. ^ Crow, D.; Desanto, J. (2004). "A hybrid approach to concept extraction and recognition-based matching in the domain of human resources". 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. p. 535. doi:10.1109/ICTAI.2004.12. ISBN 0-7695-2236-X. S2CID 13378806.
  6. ^ Earnshaw, Aliza (4 August 2003). "Unicru expands capabilities with two acquisitions". Portland Business Journal.
  7. ^ "Is Guru.com a Scam or a Legit Freelance Site? [Full Review]". Gig Hustlers. 2018-09-09. Retrieved 2020-10-23.

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