Something that interests me is how do companies like Faithlife (Biblegateway branch of Harpercollins, BibleWorks, etc) find the unique talent pool needed to create their software and hire them in one place. Faithlife has virtually all their employees at their Bellingham office (I am not aware of any remote employees or other offices).
My question is how Faithlife recruits the highly specific talent pool and does this in a confined area. The amount of detail and advanced features of Faithlife's products are amazing, but it would require tons of work with exposition of the Bible (particularly in Logos); probably with people who that sort of education. At the same time I would think that the Bible content people would have to know some things about computer design or programming to create the features.
How does Faithlife find such a unique talent pool (Bible educated people and computer people who have experience with the other or people who help them work together) in a confined area (just around Seattle and such, I didn't think Washington was a big place for Bible Scholars). Does Faithlife have some special relationships with seminaries? Are there a lot of remote workers or other offices specifically in areas with a lot of Bible education?
A related side question, is the cost of employment part of the high cost of Logos? I imagine it would take a large team (50+ people would be my guess) of Bible expositors to create all the content/data and analysis features, and I understand Faithlife had to take a risk in paying these people before it was released.
I ask this because I plan on going into the Bible Software field myself and would like to start a nonprofit eventually, but I don't see where the workforce for this is at (and since I consider myself part of the "Bible Tech" industry I find these things interesting). I understand that this is probably a question someone from Faithlife would have to answer, but nevertheless I thought I would ask here on the public forums.
In Christ,
Superdadsuper (a.k.a Adam S.)