Jon Younger, Author, Forbes Contributor, Human Cloud Partner
Expert Insights Jon YoungerAuthor, Forbes Contributor, Human Cloud Partner,‘Godfather’ of the Freelance Revolution Leaders, Jon Younger is the ‘OG’ of our industry. He recently led the most comprehensive global study on freelancers with the University of Toronto. In this episode he broke down quantitative and qualitative data like how there’s 15 million full time freelancers, […]
Steve King, Founder, Emergent Research
Expert Insights Steve KingFounder, Emergent Research Leaders, Steve King and Jon Younger are the brains behind many of our industries leading stats. What’s unique about Steve is that he’s the perfect example of freelancing becoming the natural evolution of work. Steve wasn’t a pissed off employee that wanted to ‘ditch the 9-5 to sit on […]
Rachel Renock, Co-founder, CEO, Wethos
Expert Insights Rachel RenockCo-Founder & CEO, Wethos Leaders, Rachel is solving arguably the most difficult challenge in the freelance economy – how to power individual freelancers to scale, meaning scale their freelancing into a sustainable career path rather than a fun side gig. She isn’t the first one to try this, Bonsai in 2016 was the first […]
Linda Mann, US Co-Founder & CPO, FlexC
Expert Insights Linda MannUS Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, FlexC Leaders, Linda is our industry’s superhero in building freelance programs at scale. She built PWC’s Talent Exchange, she was MBO’s Chief Experience Officer, and now is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at FlexC, a somewhat new yet prominently established marketplace. A couple of themes to listen […]
Barry Matthews, CEO, Open Assembly
Expert Insights Barry MatthewsCEO, Open Assembly Leaders, We need to talk about how organizations can scale their freelance usage. The freelance economy V1 & V2 was built for entrepreneurs and small businesses, not large companies. The problem as Barry Matthews, CEO of Open Assembly and 20+ year vet describes it, is that Enterprises don’t know which […]
Marc Clemens, Founder & CEO of Code Control & 9am
Expert Insights Marc ClemensFounder & CEOCodeControl & 9am Leaders, Entrepreneurs like Marc have built the freelance economy we know today and are building the freelance economy of tomorrow. Specifically, he has cracked the code on mobilizing high quality product and technical talent through Code Control, the German marketplace founded in 2016, and recently launched […]
Jeremy Johnson, CEO & Co-Founder, Andela
Andela is a leading marketplace for developers, engineers, product designers, and technology experts. Beyond the platform, Jeremy has spent over 15 years unlocking the power of global, digital networks to drive business change.
Matt Dowling, Founder of Freelance Club
Expert Insights Matthew DowlingFounder of Freelancer Club Leaders, the freelance economy is shifting from being dominated by large, horizontal marketplaces to small, niche, hyper relevant communities of freelancers. We call this freelance first, and Matt’s 8+ year old community of 60,000 freelancers is the epitome of this. Built with education, support, and opportunities as the three pillars, […]
Kelvin Wetherill, Founder & CEO, Supportwave
NerdApp best personifies the freelance economies transformation away from broad marketplaces and towards niche, skill specific platforms. Learn how Kelvin used his personal experience in the IT services industry for 15+ years to create a marketplace that can deliver IT experts in under 30 seconds.
Maari Casey, 10+ Year Freelancer, Founder of Uncompany
Expert Insights Maari Casey 10+ Year Freelancer Founder of Uncompany Leaders, our industry is in a really unique position. For the past 10 years we’ve been client focused. Meaning our attention, investment, and decisions typically were based off what was best for the client, not the freelancer. Today we’re freelancer focused. Meaning the value of […]