Upwork
4 statements across 4 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 16, 2021 by Einar Vollset · said 30 times in 15 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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brought up most by Rob Walling (26), James Kennedy (2), Ben Atwood (1), Andrew Gazdecky (1)
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2025 5 mentions in 1 episode
2023 8 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 679 | Mock Features, A Failed Launch, Becoming a Freelanc...
- Episode 650 | Building vs. Buying a SaaS, Day Job Constraints, an...
- Episode 686 | How Much is Enough?, Outsourcing Marketing, and Mor...
- Episode 678 | Selling a Half-Finished Product, Phased Launches, a...
- Episode 664 | The Challenges of Horizontal SaaS, Adding Services...
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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 14 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 540 | Bootstrapper News. Twitter Spaces, Indie.vc Closing, Shopify, and More
- Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- Episode 555 | Businesses You Can Bootstrap, W2 vs. Contract, Enterprise Pricing, and More
- Episode 536 | A Few Things I Learned in 2020 (A Rob Solo Adventure)
- Episode 559 | Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace with MicroAquire
- Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Upwork, oldest first
Mar 16, 2021 bullish
Vollset: LinkedIn gig marketplace can succeed due to persistent professional identity
“One of the issues with like Upwork and whatever is like, if someone is terrible, they can be great for a little bit and then they can be terrible. And then yeah, If they're really bad, you can sort of burn their ratings or whatever, but they could just start u…”
Jan 21, 2025 positive
Walling: MicroConf uses Dynamite Jobs for full-time and Upwork for part-time
“If I'm doing a full-time, you know, W-II employee hire, we go through Dynamite Jobs remote-first recruiting, just because finding full-time people is so time-consuming. But if we're hiring part-time, we tend, we being MicroConf Tiny Seed, And even, you know, b…”
May 13, 2025
May 5, 2026 negative
Rob Walling discards $10-$15/hour Upwork bids due to quality concerns
“When we go in to post a job, I will not take the low end bids on Upwork at all, because I just, I don't think the quality's gonna be there. So if we post a job and we get a 40 dollar an hour bid, or a bunch in the thirties and forties, and we get a bunch in li…”