Friends who once sold sweets to classmates in the playground are now the brains behind an app that has offered £10.7m worth of jobs to UK students
Londoners Oliver Jacobs and Joseph Black, both 25, have built a staff of 20 and have 190,000 members on their free app, UniTaskr
Best friends who first displayed their entrepreneurial flair in the playground by selling Chewits and Coca-Cola to classmates at a profit are now the brains behind a unique freelance work app, that has so far offered £10.7 million worth of jobs to students across the UK.
Since launching UniTaskr two years ago, Oliver Jacobs and Joseph Black, both 25, have built a staff of 20 and have 190,000 members on their free app, which connects students with employers ranging from Spotify to the NHS, who pay for skills like digital marketing, design, proofreading and photography.
Determined to make a platform which provided cash-strapped students with enough money to pay for their studies, from a young age the pals- who share a flat in Brixton, south west London, and now boast a six-figure monthly revenue – showed an…
