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I have often hired a trusted / skilled person to do software contracting and they in turn subcontracted some or all of the work out to someone they worked with.

I have often hired a trusted / skilled person to do software contracting and they in turn subcontracted some or all of the work out to someone they worked with. That situation seems t arise naturally, where lots of people want to hire person X, and so person X starts to say, "I don't have the time myself but I know someone I can work with I trust." The skilled contractor can then handle excess demand when it exists. If I were looking for someone to be my "agent" the first place I would look would be successful individual contractors who are doing similar work. Many may need subcontractors. Also, star cintractors already have a lot of the qualities of agents, and more importantly qualities that would be hard to find in agents if they existed: domain expertise, connections, reputation, communication skills, understanding of the work.

biztos 5y ago
Did your contract say anything about that? If I start a consulting company and want it to grow, then sooner or later I have to play the same game as the big players: Principals come and close the deal, Juniors do the actual work, billing reflects this. What I'm curious about for the agent model is someone who actually proposes to do the work, and does it. In that case, popularity raises the rate instead of dividing the time. Having Brad Pitt act in your movie costs more. If you really are an independent "IC" and are a "star" then you will have offers you want to turn down, right? And dealing with that will be a drag too, right? Hollywood Stars still use agents last I checked.