a version of Jaka Bavdek's own words · EIN Presswire
source · creator-economy size — inBeat aggregation of Goldman Sachs, Bazaarvoice, Market.us
illustrative — not precise data
Brands get organic-feeling content from a pool 8x describes as 237k+ creators. Self-serve or full-service.
“Get paid to post on LinkedIn.” Vetted creators matched on niche, audience, region and 90-day engagement, with per-post attribution.
source · 8x.social, 8x.business
A best-evidence reconstruction from the flows you can actually watch on 8x.business/creator and platform.8x.social.
tap a stage —
Two stages are most plausibly still expensive and human-bottlenecked today: finding the right creator (not just a filtered list), and judging whether content will actually perform. Those are exactly the two a capability graph would compress.
source · platform.8x.social, 8x.business/creator
the 8x manifesto — verbatim
Their words, not ours. We built our thesis around the same idea — independently, before we had their materials.
source · 8x.life/manifesto
8x.social
8x.life
jakabavdek.com
theobui.com
| property | people | countries | revenue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8x.socialconsumer UGC network | 237k+ | 61+ / 140+ | — |
| 8x.lifeholding-company / thesis layer | 250k+ | 50+ | — |
| jakabavdek.comCEO's personal site | 120k+ | 30+ | $3M run rate / 5 mo |
| theobui.comCTO's personal site | 50k+ | 30+ | $1.4M ARR / 5 mo |
| 8x-internal.comcareers portal | — | — | $3M+ run rate |
This is what a company scaling faster than its marketing surfaces can be kept in sync looks like — a positive signal about growth velocity, a question about which number to trust in a pitch.
source · 8x.social, 8x.life, jakabavdek.com, theobui.com, 8x-internal.com
Every campaign leaves a performance trail — views, engagement, per-creator. The 90-day engagement stat used in matching is the only piece we can confirm 8x retains and re-surfaces.
Whether that compounds into a capability score, or is simply redisplayed as a filter, is unknown.
source · 8x.business/creator
not yet scored, as far as we can tell
The platform 8x built its wedge on top of now offers a version of the same connection natively. Pressure to differentiate on matching quality, cross-platform data and orchestration — not discovery.
source · Lindsey Gamble — LinkedIn Creator Marketplace, Digital Applied — BrandWorks B2B 2026
by job-to-be-done, not by label — tap a node
Managed creator network + orchestration overlay
8x
solves — Brief → match → produce → review → publish → measure → pay, across its own human roster
vs 8x — The reference point — an agency-plus-marketplace hybrid with its own cross-border payment rails
source · TechCrunch — Mercor, Sacra, prolific.com/ai
Content → sales → QA → user research → ? — the rungs 8x has named, each dimming as it gets less real, and one that isn’t lit yet.
the rung that isn't lit yet
That’s the idea, stated plainly and labelled as ours. No product, no architecture — the rest is a conversation, not a slide.
8x Mobile Hackathon · a research artifact by Om Umrania
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