Matt Barrie
Chief Executive & Chairman
All companies 
Freelancer.com
5 conversations across 1 show.
Meet the people behind the company.
Latest conversation · Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem
The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 1About Freelancer.com
Freelancer.com is an online marketplace where businesses and individuals post jobs and freelancers bid to complete them, across categories such as software, design and writing. It was founded in 2009 by Matt Barrie and is run by Freelancer Limited, which is headquartered in Sydney and listed on the ASX (FLN). The group also owns the payments service Escrow.com and the freight marketplace Loadshift.
- Sector
- Online freelance marketplace
- Business model
- Marketplace
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Sydney
- Markets
- Global, incl. Australia, US, UK
- Status
- ASX-listed (ASX: FLN)
Sources: en.wikipedia.org, freelancer.com
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Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 1
With Matt Barrie
Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 2
With Matt Barrie
Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 3
With Matt Barrie
Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 5
With Matt Barrie
Documentary: The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem The History Of The Australian Startup Ecosystem - Part 6
With Matt Barrie
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Moments from other conversations on the network where Freelancer.com comes up.
“I turned it around, made it profitable, and I, yeah, and then I rebranded it to StartCon and built that as a subsidiary company under the Freelancer.com group.”
On The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series
Cheryl Mack on building communities and her passion for supporting founders · 9:01Alumni on Day One.
People who worked at Freelancer.com before, and what they're doing now.
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