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Connor Gillivan

Founder & CMO, TrioSEO · 1 appearance on the record.

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Connor Gillivan is an entrepreneur best known for co-founding the freelance marketplace FreeUp, which was acquired by The HOTH in 2019. Following the sale, he launched ventures including Outsource School, EcomBalance, and TrioSEO, and authored Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies.

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1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 8 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 8 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 8 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Connor argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Gillivan: FreeeUp focuses on e-commerce and marketing, unlike Toptal
“TopTal is more focused on your higher level developer and designer. Our workers are more specialized within e-commerce business operations, and then also digital marketing.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 5:17 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?

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Everything Connor Gillivan said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
FreeeUp pays 50% of earnings to founders, reinvesting only 25%
“For any of that 20% that we're earning we usually take about half of it and pay ourselves out, put another quarter of it into actually regrowing the company, and then put the rest of the quarter into kind of a cash reserve so that we can make sure that the com…”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 13:46 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: Amazon business netted 5% to 10% profit on $20M sales
“So we make about 20 to 30% gross profit margins off of that twenty million dollars in sales. And then usually net profits end up being between five and 10%, depending on how we actually use the gross profits to pay employees and do other things to grow the sto…”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 1:31 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: FreeeUp processes $60,000 to $80,000 weekly in total volume
“We're doing between 60 and 80,000 dollars in revenue per week.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 8:16 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: FreeeUp has 1,500+ signups and 300-500 weekly billing clients
“So we have over 1500 people signed up to the platform now, and then on a weekly basis we're billing between 305 hundred people who are actually using our workers.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 9:10 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Disclosure
Gillivan: FreeeUp and prior Amazon business are completely bootstrapped
“Totally bootstrapped. Both businesses.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 12:11 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Prediction Not checkable as stated
FreeeUp projects $3M to $4M in 2017 gross volume at 20% take
“That's between three and four top line. So then again, take 20% of that, and they'll give you what the company's actually earning.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 12:44 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: FreeeUp grew revenue roughly 1,000% from April 2016 to April 2017
“So, and so since last April and this is based off our revenue, we've grown at about a thousand percent to this April.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 14:32 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: Amazon business generates $1M to $2M annually with 10 freelancers
“So right now, the company still operates. We're doing between one and two million dollars in revenue per year, and we have a team of about 10 people located around the world, just freelancers experts within different aspects of running Amazon stores, who are h…”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 3:01 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Supported
Gillivan: FreeeUp focuses on e-commerce and marketing, unlike Toptal
“TopTal is more focused on your higher level developer and designer. Our workers are more specialized within e-commerce business operations, and then also digital marketing.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 5:17 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: FreeeUp has over 500 active billing freelancers
“So we have, right now we have over 500 freelancers in the network who are billing hours on a regular basis.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 6:54 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gillivan: FreeeUp averages around $10 per hour across all billing
“It's around 10 dollars per hour right now. I'm pretty sure that's what our average is.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 8:01 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?
Disclosure
FreeeUp pays clients a 50-cent-per-hour perpetual royalty on referrals
“So a big thing that we do is we have a pretty awesome referral program where our, all of our clients can refer, free up out to their network or out to other people, and they receive 50 cents for every single hour that's billed to anyone that they refer.”
Connor Gillivan Jun 24, 2017 ▶ 9:55 700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal?

The other half of the tape: Connor Gillivan's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 4 times in 1 episode on Top Founders. every mention, with the transcript →

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Appearances (1)

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700: With $3,000,000 in Projects Completed, Will He Take Down Upwork and Toptal? Jun 24, 2017 9m
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