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TaskUs Takes $250M From Blackstone

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Santa Monica-based business outsourcing service provider TaskUs , founded by Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir, said this morning that it has raised $250M in an investment round. The investment came from private equity investor Blackstone Group. According to TaskUs, the funding round values the company at $500M. READ MORE>>.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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It''s all over the map, from content moderation for applications like Whisper and Tinder, to photo retouching for e-commerce websites. We''d gone to high school together in Santa Monica, and we were both very entrepreneurial in high school. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur'

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Interview With Brian McCarthy, Dentistry.com

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We do have to operate within things like headcount maximums, and we do have some components of budget and cost limits, but inside those requirements we have been able to figure out ways to add staffing, adding product managers, finding outsourcing, and developing technology contractors. We are working with a team in Montevideo, Uruguay.

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