It’s been one year since our ICO started…

I wanted to take this chance to reflect on what we have achieved as a company over the last year, the contributions made by the individuals, and the next milestones.

Over the past year, we have come far as a company, and have achieved many things. The community loved our idea during the ICO, supported us wholeheartedly during and after the ICO, and I am proud to say that we have never let them down. We were just four people when we started Indorse — myself, David, Avadhoot, and Dipesh. Each of us has worked very hard and committed fully to the success of this project. The contributions by my co-founders can never be questioned or belittled, but as someone recently said to me -

Companies usually tend to outgrow one person and the founders.

I think this is completely true in the case of Indorse, and I would be amiss to downplay the significant role played by the rest of the team, our investors, token holders, advisors and, the community that we have built up. Just after finishing our ICO last year in September, we went on a hiring spree, expanding our team across London, Singapore, and India, and we DID get the best people onboard! We have engineers from Oxford, King’s college, contributors to the Bitcoin core, Goldman Sachs, sales professionals from Rocket Internet working with Indorse. All of these people, who might have gotten better opportunities elsewhere (who doesn’t want blockchain professionals?!) joined us and have stuck with us through thick and thin, worked hard, under extreme pressure to deliver the best product because they also believed in the vision of Indorse! And mind you, they have always been my personal guiding star and bought back sanity to the product decisions that we make. They have never let us falter from our original promise and vision of -

Giving ownership of data back to the users

Data monetization using token economics

Skills validation

While the last year has been quite a roller coaster for the entire crypto-community, the prices rising from low lows to extreme highs, at Indorse, it has been a year of extreme focus! We have never deviated from our principle of focusing on the product. And we have indeed delivered good results — launching a bunch of Smart Contracts on the mainnet, onboarding 30,000 users and starting a job aggregation board on the platform! While some other projects have tried to brazenly copy our ideas and the platform feature by feature, they have failed miserably, because one thing they cannot copy is our conviction in the product and the amazing, focused team that we have built out here at Indorse!

Going forward, we have rallied the team behind a singular purpose — increase the product adoption and user engagement on the platform! We have re-invigorated our focus on getting people to validate their skills and match them with relevant jobs through our platform. We are trying out a few innovative methods of achieving this while leveraging blockchain and tokenomics incentive models. We have also started a small research team at Indorse, headed by Security expert Rajeev Gopalakrishna, in order to contribute to the overall blockchain development and give back to the community.

Anyway, time to get back to work and continue to build the future.