Matt Barrie (Founder/CEO of Freelancer.com)

Name: Matt Barrie (Founder/CEO of Freelancer.com)
Start: 2015-11-24T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2015-11-24T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Work.Life

Nov 24, 2015, 6:00 – 9:00 PM (UTC)

London

Work.Life, 13 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London, NW1 8NP

Matt Barrie is founder & CEO of Freelancer.com, the world's leading freelancing and crowd-sourcing marketplace and 8 times Webby-award winner! After graduating at Stanford University, he worked as venture capitalist at Innovation Capital. Then Matt founded Sensory Networks, which was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2013. Freelancer.com is valued at $600 million today, growing at 40% per year.

In-person event

About this event

Matt Barrie is an Australian technology entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Freelancer.com: the world's leading freelancing and crowd-sourcing marketplace and Eight-time Webby-award winner. Matt was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 by BRW and in 2014 he was named the most influential person in technology in Australia by Smart Company. 

After graduating at Stanford University Matt worked as a venture capitalist at Innovation Capital. Then he founded Sensory Networks that was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2013.

In 2009 Matt founded Freelancer.com and listed it on the ASX in 2013. It is today valued at over $600 million and grows at the rate of 40% per year.

We will sit down for a fireside chat with Matt at Startup Grind London to talk about freelancing, crowd-sourcing, the future of work and building globally successful companies.

Join us on 24th Nov, 6pm at the brand new Work.Life.