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The James Altucher Show

Ep. 114 - Matt Barrie of Freelancer.com: How to Get Paid Doing What You Love

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Society & Culture, Talk Radio, Writer, Philosophy, Comedy, Chess, How To, Entrepreneurship, Jay, James, The James Altucher Show, Altucher, Author, Jay Yow, Education, Jay The Engineer, Business, James Altucher

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

What are you best at? Whatever it is, you should do it more often and get paid for it, too. Do you know the ultimate site to choose yourself (besides jamesaltucher.com)? It's Freelancer.com. It's "a global market for services" and "the eBay for jobs."...

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.4

This is the James Altitor show on the Stansbury Radio Network.

0:17.8

I have one of my heroes on the podcast with me today, Matt Barry.

0:22.9

Welcome to the show.

0:23.9

Thank you for having me.

0:25.5

Matt, I don't think you even realize why you're one of my heroes.

0:27.8

So for, hey, I just want to explain to the audience, you're the founder and CEO of Freelancer.com.

0:34.6

And in 2006, one of the companies that you have since acquired, I outsourced a development

0:43.6

of a website for just a few thousand dollars, which I ended up selling for a huge amount,

0:50.2

just eight months later.

0:51.6

So I just love the whole impact that Freelancer.com is having on the entrepreneurial economy.

0:59.9

That's phenomenal.

1:00.9

I mean, that's another success story for you.

1:05.5

That's great.

1:06.5

I mean, what's really exciting about running a marketplace like ours, so the listeners

1:10.5

that are out there, I mean, basically we're eBay for jobs.

1:13.2

We have 15 million users from around the world.

1:15.3

In fact, we just get that milestone two weeks ago, who have posted 7.5 million jobs.

1:21.2

And the sorts of jobs that can be done on our sites is really anything with the computer.

1:25.0

So jobs like website design, James, James and a website built, for example, graphic design,

1:30.8

translation, copywriting and so forth about, you know, about five or six years ago, we had

1:35.0

about 20 different categories of jobs.

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