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“They also said that any companies that provided a required meeting as part of their process actually significantly correlated to delays and slower project finish times, and so they even built a synchronous video conferencing product into their offering, and 57…”

“Last year, we set the goal of rebranding and changing a bunch of our, ah, marketing assets, doing a big launch. We did this in about half the time, changing 900 assets in our company. So much faster than we would have been able to do with just an in-house team…”

“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.”

“When I became the CEO of our company in January of last year, I had a very audacious goal for us to go from being a single product company to having four products, and it was our remote development team that included so many of these freelance developers that …”

“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.”

“And so we also see that in the data, professional freelancers actually do more to upskill themselves constantly than captive employees do. That's just a fact.”

“We have a practice where our virtual teams do get together once every year or so for a two-week agile, like, meetup where the team is, you know, in Czechoslovakia or Mexico City or somewhere, and they do have team building in person. The rest of the year, they…”

“It's 95% freelancers, and yet our attrition rate on the team is less than five percent.”

“In fact, we have more than 350 freelancers doing remote development for us on our core mobile app, our web apps, and this has been a huge part of how we've scaled our business over many, many years.”

“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…”

“Unlike your employees, who might only be onboarded fully and delivering ROI for you after three to six months, your freelancers, you can onboard in a few hours, and they're delivering ROI for you in a few hours, which is amazing, because they are very fast and…”