Top 5 Large Companies that were built with Outsourcing

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Did you know that some of the well-known and well-talked about websites/companies today were built with outsourced services?

Alibaba

The giant e-commerce company that is based on china headed by Jack Ma. Opened its doors on outsourcing when they began building the website. They’ve hired people in the US to start its development, and in just a few years, Alibaba grew from a startup dream to an e-commerce powerhouse.

Slack

Founded in 2013 by the co-founder of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield, Slack is a messaging app for the organizational workplace. Outsourcing its design and development such as its Logo, its fully functioning website, and also their new app.

Slack has now over a million users and is now valued at $3B according to reports.

Skype

The peer-to-peer instant messaging, voice and video calling app Skype was founded by the Swedish Niklas Zennström and Danish Dane Janus Friis in cooperation with their Estonian outsourced team. Skype was introduced in 2003, and was later bought by Ebay in 2005 and recently bought by Microsoft in 2011. Skype is now one of the most widely used messaging application that is used around the world.

Github

Github can be dubbed as the Holy Grail for coders and developer collaboration. The system is designed for developers by developers. Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett founded the company, with the help of Scott Chacon hired as their outsourced consultant and the created the backend of Gist.

Github today is widely used around the world by beginners who wanted to explore the development industry, up to the big enterprises such as NASA and Facebok.

AppSumo

AppSumo is a website for distributing web apps. Founded by the chief sumo Noah Kagan, this app distribution website boasts its 500,000 customers in 18 months. The website’s payment method was built by a Pakistan outsourced developer for $50 and the rest is history.

Many people who wanted to start their business are being weary of the process of development. They may have great ideas, but there will still be hindrance in skills. These large companies that we know today all have risked and tried outsourcing their development to make them happen.

What if these founders haven’t ventured with outsourcing before? Will we still use their platforms and benefit from them as we are today?

Whether you plan to outsource your business within your location or planning to choose offshore staffing services. You should have a concrete idea and you must know how the flow of your project will go. This will make you and your outsourcing provider work efficiently.