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The Most Expensive Number in Politics Is a Door That Never Opened
Express Canvassing sells the oldest technology in politics - one person talking to another - then surrounds it with the training, data and quality control of a modern field operation.
Half a Robocall Built a 25-Year Political Phone Shop
A cheap vendor once delivered only half the message. Marty and Paul Stone answered by building a firm around the unfashionable idea that a political call should behave like a conversation - and that every ring should lead somewhere measurable.
Scale to Win sells the minutes between the messages
Built by campaign organizers, Scale to Win turns texting and calling into a coordinated operation. Its most revealing features handle what happens before you press send - and after someone answers.
Jesse Hassinger
Jesse Hassinger is the CEO of Hustle, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer text messaging platform used by nonprofits, political campaigns, labor unions, and universities to mobilize people at scale. With over eight years at Hustle progressing from Director of Support to Director of Product before taking the helm as CEO in early 2025, Hassinger brings a rare blend of grassroots political organizing experience and deep product intuition to leading one of the most widely adopted civic tech platforms in the country — one that has facilitated over one billion text conversations.