
Before Toptal, Taso Du Val tried music, wrote software, and discovered that his judgment of engineers was something other people would pay for. Sixteen years after founding the company, he is still revising his ideas about how talented people work together.

A hiring problem helped bring Toptal into being. Now Breanden Beneschott is trying to make the next company easier to build than the last.
Taso Du Val is the co-founder and CEO of Toptal, the global on-demand talent network he started in 2010. A high school dropout from Western Massachusetts who tried music before code, he built one of the largest profitable bootstrapped marketplaces in the world while refusing the Silicon Valley playbook of raising round after round.