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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Obviously, students can provide skilled labor at good prices. Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish. We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. Those loans are very mis-priced, in our opinion. I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade.