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Richard Calloway

Co-founder and CEO. Started Deftridge after years of watching skilled people with full-time jobs turn down good side work because nobody could show the rate up front.

Portrait of Richard Calloway
E-mail
[email protected]
Based in
Atlanta, United States
Team
Leadership
On the team since
2025
About Richard

What Richard handles

Started Deftridge after years of watching skilled people with full-time jobs turn down good side work because nobody could show the rate up front.

Responsible for

Company strategy, client partnerships.

Team

Works with every team on this page.

Writes from

[email protected] and from no other address.

Never asks for

Money, a password or an identity document in a chat message.

How it works

How to work with Richard

  1. Write with the details

    E-mail Richard at [email protected] or use the contact form, with the task or invoice number if you have one.

  2. A reply in writing

    You get an answer in writing within one working day, in your time zone.

  3. One thread

    The conversation stays in one thread, so nobody asks you the same thing twice.

  4. Escalate if it stalls

    If a request is stuck, reply to the thread and a team head picks it up the same day.

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