With billions of dollars expected from private investors, both foreign and Iraqi, officials and shopkeepers on Rasheed Street suspect that much of the money will end up in the pockets of politicians or connected contractors.
I enlisted to protect the American people, but ended up making profits for politically connected contractors.
ConstructionDeal.com, which connects contractors with customers, has similarly personalized the shopping experience in order to make relevant promotions and offers, said Aaron Rose, vice president for marketing for the Los Angeles-based site.
Data compiled by Wonolo, a firm that connects contractors to companies, found – among other things – that gig economy workers and freelancers contribute $1.4tn to the US economy annually and that the growth in freelance workers is nearly doubling every year.
BuildZoom connects contractors with remodeling jobs.
San Francisco-based Getable was founded in 2010 to make it easier to connect contractors with the equipment they needed to get a job done.
In terms of core tech, Drozdzynski says that's its matching algorithm for connecting contractors with vacancies (again with a little human input looped in at the end of the process to select candidates from an algorithmic shortlist).
While the lawsuit is officially under seal, The Chicago Sun-Times reported in June that it had obtained a copy and that the plaintiffs accuse P. Nicholas Hurtgen, the former head of the Chicago office of Bear Stearns, of pressuring them to award construction work to a contractor connected with a state official in charge of approving such projects.
It would set up a database of contractors, subcontractors for tracking the connection between interests and contributions and make it a misdemeanor for council members to vote on contracts worth $25,000 or more if they took contributions from anyone connected to the contractor for one year before or after the vote.
[n19] Because not service-connected, the contractors' clause has been held unconstitutional.
