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How to Build and Sustain a Remote Culture

With over 4,000 people across more than 100 countries, Toptal has mastered the art of attracting and retaining premier talent in a remote environment. Leaders at the company attribute its success to its corporate culture, which serves as the foundation for everything they do.

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Jordan Davidson

Jordan Davidson

Jordan Davidson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Vice.

Living His Best Life: David Nuff’s Inspiring Freelance Success Story

If we could design our best life, what would it entail? What would our freelance success story look like? Hear firsthand and get advice from someone who has designed their career and thrived.

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Miklos Philips

Miklos Philips

Lead Design Blog Editor

The Art of the Fundraising Pitch Deck

The flow of a fundraising pitch deck is vital for striking a chord with investors and clearly displaying the narrative of the business. Going through a successful pitch deck slide by slide is one of the most effective ways to learn how to build a flow.

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Brendan Fitzgerald

Brendan Fitzgerald

Brendan has raised more than $700 million and built strategic relationships with numerous Fortune 500 companies to help grow businesses.

Using Kotlin for Back-end Development: A Quick Overview

Kotlin has features that make it an ideal language for back-end development. Learn what these features are and how you can use them to create high-performing systems.

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Boldizsar Akos Mezei

Boldizsar Akos Mezei

Boldizsar is a Java/Scala back-end developer who has worked at Morgan Stanley on a group of microservices.

Design a Better Homepage With the StoryBrand Framework

Adhering to the StoryBrand framework to create a homepage with a compelling narrative that focuses on the customer’s needs is one of the best ways to build trust with website visitors.

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Anak Garcia

Anak Garcia

Anak is a UX specialist who has been helping businesses grow for more than a decade by creating intuitive user-centric digital projects.

Inside Toptal’s Product Team

Discover the internal workings of a world-class remote product team and what it takes to work at the greatest talent company in the world.

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Kleanthis Georgaris

Kleanthis Georgaris

Kleanthis is a seasoned product leader and entrepreneur. He is the former SVP of Product at Toptal and has held other roles in strategy and product at Microsoft, McKinsey & Company, and multiple startups. Kleanthis has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and an MBA from the National Technical University of Athens.

Black Swans 3: How Challenges Lead to Breakthroughs

The world is reinventing itself after COVID-19. Through lessons from national economies, companies, and individuals, this piece presents critical considerations for helping our cities or countries and adapting our companies and careers.

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Erik Stettler

Erik Stettler

Erik is a co-founder of a global venture capital fund that has invested in 50 startups (raising more than $500 million) and has realized six exits. He serves as Toptal’s Chief Economist and holds an MBA from Harvard.

Give Them Incentive: How to Leverage a Loyalty Program Design Framework

In 2019, India’s largest airline went bankrupt, and its frequent flyers switched to a new platform. We examine the loyalty program design for InterMiles, a rewards platform focused on lifestyles.

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Astha Agarwal

Astha Agarwal

Astha is a product designer who makes complex interfaces simple. She works with organizations ranging from healthcare to sports and travel.

Healing Broken Supply Chains: Manufacturing Outside China

Given the outbreak of COVID-19 and its disruptive impact on supply chains, many are looking to diversify their manufacturing locations. We provide an analysis of the pros and cons, current state, and outlook for major markets outside of China.

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Martin Schwarzburg

Martin Schwarzburg

With 25 years in finance, Martin has raised ~$500 million in capital and managed real asset portfolios from $50 million to $10+ billion.

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