Gupshup’s Beerud Sheth: From a ‘deep, dark tunnel’ to building two unicorns
Sheth can afford to say that. He has the distinction of scaling two unicorns—Elance (renamed as Upwork), and Gupshup—across two different geographies. He cofounded Elance in the US in 1998 as a marketplace for gig workers. It eventually merged with a company called oDesk in 2013, renamed Upwork two years later, and then publicly listed
