IBJ Podcast: Bill Oesterle’s TMap is asking former Hoosiers to come back home
The former CEO of Angie’s List is using big data and machine learning to try to solve an emerging problem in Indiana—a stagnate and soon-to-be shrinking workforce.
The former CEO of Angie’s List is using big data and machine learning to try to solve an emerging problem in Indiana—a stagnate and soon-to-be shrinking workforce.
The company’s goal is to find talented people who live out of state but have a connection to Indiana—then lure them here to live and work.
About $4 million will be spent, and the street will be far worse off.
The real growth areas of the state are the suburbs. Until 2016, this was a trend that overwhelmingly benefited Republicans. That may have changed.
Matt did what great journalists do; he got the truth out.
I believe California’s law is structurally flawed, potentially counterproductive, and contributes to a large dangerous trend.
Each building is a billboard for ineffective code enforcement.
Out of 65 million refugees last year, Indiana took only about 2,000. With 37 counties losing population, why can’t that be 15,000 or 20,000?
Local control allows governments to be the laboratory where ideas are conceived and experiments are tested.
The best way to reduce smoking is to tax the hell out of it and use the tax dollars to fund programs that help people quit.
I have never seen anything like it in Indiana.
I think we lost something when we moved to tigers and wildcats and patriots.
In February 2022, Bill spoke to the student-led Ball State Economics Club. Bill gave us an inside view into the growth, challenges and ultimate triumph of Angie’s List (now called Angi), the company he co-founded.
The Daniels Prize recognizes Hoosiers whose life’s work has lifted the state to a new plane of thought, aspiration, expectation and action in the spirit of Mitch Daniels’ own leadership.
Local restaurateur Neal Brown has scrapped plans to open what he had planned to call Midtown Brasserie in a 73-year-old art deco building at 215 E. 38th St.
This is crazy. It is also completely counter to the merit-based immigration policies the administration keeps pushing.
One day after shutting down his upscale southern European eatery in the Mass Ave district, local restaurateur and chef Neal Brown disclosed he was moving on to an even bigger project in partnership with former Angie’s List CEO Bill Oesterle.
Your last name, your high school and your golf club membership just don’t matter that much here.
The fast-growing provider of on-site medical clinics for employers wants their former executive chairman to sell back his incentive units, but the two sides are hundreds of thousands of dollars apart in their assessment of how much those units are worth.
Former Angie’s List CEO Bill Oesterle said he created TMap to help employers tailor messages to people in the state’s “potential” workforce, which includes non-residents with Hoosier ties.