Author: Matthew Mottola

Matthew Mottola has been leading the freelance economy for over 10 years. By personally experiencing this economy on all sides, Matthew has become a trusted global source for freelance leaders, spanning entrepreneurs, executive teams, investors, policy makers, and media. Matthew is currently CEO of Human Cloud, a global freelance advisory firm, alongside “godfather of the freelance economy” Jon Younger. Under Younger and Mottola’s leadership, Human Cloud empowers freelance leaders to earn their place in the $6.2 trillion dollar freelance economy. Under Matthew’s leadership, Human Cloud published the Human Cloud book with HarperCollins, built the #1 global podcast for the freelance category, and launched Freelance Trend Tracker, the largest database of freelance economy sentiment. Alongside Human Cloud, Matthew speaks, invests, guest lectures at Georgia Tech, and contributes in Forbes on the freelance economy. Prior, Matthew founded Venture L, a venture backed freelancer SaaS, led the Microsoft 365 freelance toolkit, a tech stack enabling enterprises to scale freelance programs over $100m, was early at Gigster, Silicon Valley's leading software development freelancer network, and freelanced himself for over 10 years. Matthew has spoken across 50+ international stages, been nominated a top 50 remote work expert to follow, and featured in Fortune, Bloomberg, YPO, and Yahoo Finance to name a few. In Matthew's words: "My career looks like a dog chasing his own tail. I freelance, I help enterprises hire freelancers, I build software that connects the two. Literally thats it, and I've been fortunate to see how the best companies in the world scale their workforces strategically through freelancers and freelance programs."