
A college baseball player with a law degree helped build ClearVoice around a practical question: how does a writer’s reputation become a paying assignment? Jay Swansson’s answer involved software, a long partnership, and a coach’s interest in the rest of the team.

He built search businesses, co-founded ClearVoice and sold it to Fiverr. Now Joe Griffin is working on the next version of an old problem: helping the right people find the right work.