Freelancers

“It has made it harder for freelancers and for people with a day job to find joy in their work, because they basically have mechanized Everything turned us into keystroke counting cogs.”

“For me, freelancers are to fill either a temporary gap or what I call a more of a, it's a black box role, and what I mean by that is if I could put a black box here on, on the desk, and you could feed it in some kind of input, and you know the output you want,…”

“If I were building a SaaS today, I would try to avoid it. I would want a full-time person dedicated to, you know, whether that's me or whether that is someone that I hire. There's a certain amount of ownership of the code base And technical debt will screw you…”

“The big trap I see some other people falling into is it's like, cool, I'm going to be all freelancers because I don't want any employees. Or I'm going to have like five or 10 different freelancers all doing different things. And it's like, now you're a project…”

“More than half of the businesses using freelancers in twenty-twenty-two have stopped entirely.”

“The companies that used to spend the most on freelancers shifted to AI the fastest, 97% savings for the businesses that spent the most on freelance.”

“So we have about close to one, 50,000 freelancers who've applied to write for Pepper.”

“We're going to be up to 45% of the workers in this country are going to be freelancers by the year twenty-twenty-seven.”

“Jen is getting a lot fewer pitches than me. The chances of her reading it are close to a hundred percent, and the chances of her taking it seriously, if it's relevant to any of the publications that she writes for, is much higher than me. So sometimes going to…”

“I am convinced that we are within five years of somebody taking a company public with a billion in revenue or at a billion valuation because they manage freelancers and part-time talent so well.”

“Sure you're making 20 grand a month. You're taking all of it home. You're a freelancer. You're not a business owner. You're just, you're a well-paid, you're a well-paid freelancer. So you know, those are some of the stumbling points for people is that they're,…”

“For most roles, you don't need a full-time employee.”

“And today, fast forward, we're a public company. We have about 2000 team members. 75% of those team members are freelancers. They are distributed around the world. Our team is in 86 countries globally.”

“We've been doing charge up days, which is a day off for the company, or two days off for the whole company, we pay the freelancers to also take that time off.”

“Bringing freelancers in forces that clarity and has forced us to really get good at understanding for every effort, like, what are we trying to achieve? If we can articulate that first, then we need to pause and not just start putting bodies against the effort…”

“Marketing and Having freelancers as your main customer base is tough because they're price sensitive and they churn and they go out of business because then they get a job.”

“A big mistake that a lot of people make, which is hiring freelancers. Freelancers are okay at some points, but for the management, the, like, especially if you're creating a website and you're doing it right for the first time ever, you want to put that in the…”

“We pay 70% of every dollar transactional dollar that comes in is paid to our freelancers.”

“70% of drivers for these services want to be freelancers, and the services themselves said they will put into a fund for healthcare.”

“When you try to like when you try to acquire freelancers, right. You kind of really want to bulk acquire as much as possible. You want to go into places where you can basically just like, you know, grab multiple people at once and don't try to pick people up o…”

“We still focus primarily on freelancers because they're the ones Who end up at agencies. They're the ones who end up at product teams. They're the ones who end up on enterprise and ends up being quite infectious to where they take their tool of choice to their…”

“So the other sites, Upwork, Elance, Freelancer, they all charge a percentage of a project. So if you're going to be spending, you know, five to 10 grand on a project, that's, they're going to take, you know, anywhere from 10 to 40% of that.”