Asian Founders at Work: Stories from the Region’s Top Technopreneurs

© Ezra Ferraz, Gracy Fernandez 2020

E. Ferraz, G. FernandezAsian Founders at Workhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5162-1_21

21. Mark Sears: CEO and Founder, CloudFactory

Ezra Ferraz¹  and Gracy Fernandez¹

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Makati City, Philippines

 

Founded by Mark Sears in 2008, CloudFactory addresses two problems at once. First, the shortage of jobs in emerging markets like Nepal, and second, the structural gaps in traditional outsourcing models. Inspired by Henry Ford’s assembly line framework, the platform splits up work into smaller tasks and delegates these simpler, more manageable workloads to the CloudWorkers on CloudFactory. This streamlines how individuals accomplish whatever has been outsourced to them, allowing them to do more, and hence, earn more ...