Upwork, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Upwork comes up
Canva's Cliff Obrecht: How We Turned Our Yearbook Company to $40B Business | 20VC #971 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:45 unnamed speaker We couldn't afford it anymore, so we outsourced it through Odesk, which is now Upwork at the time, to a team in India, and there's a lot of amazing development teams in India, but this wasn't one of them, um, and so we had about 400… 2 times in the scene
The Ultimate Guide for Building a Two-Sided Marketplace | a16z's Jeff Jordan · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 35:26 Harry Stebbings It's like Odesk or Elance or any of these businesses.
20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
- ▶ 29:01 Bill Gurley We're an investor in Upwork, which is a company that, that, you know, helps facilitate that type of thing, and that's super powerful.
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 3:00 Josh Breinlinger But in 2004, I moved out to San Francisco, and I joined the founding team of Odesk, which has now moved on to become the world's largest freelance labor marketplace, merged with Elance, and rebranded to Upwork. 3 times in the scene
20VC: Start Niche, Move Broader & Become Profitable Quickly with Melanie Perkins, Founder & CEO @ Canva
- ▶ 21:02 Melanie Perkins In our very early days, we used, um, it was called Odessa then, but now Upwork, and that was extremely helpful. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Creating A Competitive Process Between VCs & Having Bill Gurley As A Board Member with Aaron Hirschhorn, Founder & CEO @ DogVacay
- ▶ 21:36 Aaron Hirschhorn And I remember going on to, it was Odesk at the time. 2 times in the scene