Tech: Five Up on Work
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After Upwork's huge quarter, we check in on the freelance and gig economy marketplaces. It's a fascinating space -- Upwork is bigger, should enjoy network effects, and has scale, but Fiverr has come in, gobbled up share, and put up killer returns for shareholders in the process.
Stocks: FVRR, UPWK, DOCU
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seidful. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. |
| 0:19.0 | Wildcar! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. Let's dive in. |
| 0:27.2 | It's Friday November 6th and we're talking up work, |
| 0:29.7 | Fiver and following up on a 2018 better by question. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm your host still newest and I'm joined by fool.com's favorite feeble fabricator of |
| 0:37.6 | farcical foolish philosophies. Brian for a rolly. Brian how you doing? |
| 0:42.0 | I'm doing fantastic, Dylan. |
| 0:43.3 | Good to see you, good to see that you're rocking a beard |
| 0:45.8 | for a big Lebowski party that you had. |
| 0:47.4 | I love it. |
| 0:48.9 | You know, the beauty of facial hair is it grows back. |
| 0:52.0 | And you can do pretty much anything you want with it. |
| 0:54.3 | One of the pieces of advice my mom gave me early on was do whatever you want with your hair. |
| 0:59.3 | When you're young dye it, cut it, do weird stuff, it'll grow back and it'll grow back the color it's supposed to be. |
| 1:05.0 | And you know, that's the joy of it. |
| 1:07.0 | Same thing with your face, you can do whatever you want with it. |
| 1:09.0 | If you could teach the top of my head that trick, Dylan, that would be amazing. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, you know, Brian, you can always slap a wig on. |
| 1:15.0 | That's fine, too. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, so I think creative control exists no matter whether it's natural or fake. |
| 1:23.0 | That's right. |
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