01: Elance-oDesk CEO Fabio Rosati on How to Disrupt an Industry

01: Elance-oDesk CEO Fabio Rosati on How to Disrupt an Industry

How to Disrupt an Industry - The Age of working Differently. The Elance Story with Fabio Rosati It’s not every day you change the way the world works. But with Elance, Fabio Rosati did just this, altering the way global labor markets operate for the foreseeable future. It’s no small task, but by providing an easy and secure way for businesses to find, hire, manage and pay freelancers, Elance’s online staffing platform has revolutionized the freelancing economy. And it’s one of the fastest growing companies in the industry, expanding at a rate of 50% per year. As of 2013, Elance has over 3 million users, with 800,000 businesses hiring from a pool of 2.8 million registered freelancers, earning over $300 million yearly. Today's Guest - Fabio Rosati Hailing from Florence, Italy, Elance CEO Fabio Rosati is polite and softly-spoken. Conversing with him, you wouldn’t pick that in the last five years he had become one of the most influential individuals in the entrepreneurial space globally. A thought leader on work, the freelance economy and online staffing, Rosati’s views on the burgeoning online labor market have appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Inc., and The New York Times. It’s no small wonder then that in 2013, Rosati was an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. I Need Your Help! If you haven’t already, I would love if you could be awesome and take a minute to leave a quick rating and review of the podcast on iTunes by clicking on the link below. It’s the most amazing way to help the show grow and reach more people! Leave a review for the Foundr Podcast!

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131: Running 4000+ People Events & Building a Fast Growth Media Company with Michael Stelzner of Social Media Examiner

131: Running 4000+ People Events & Building a Fast Growth Media Company with Michael Stelzner of Social Media Examiner

After being unceremoniously tossed out of the corporate world 20 years ago, Michael Stelzner took a chance and turned toward entrepreneurship. In the years that followed, Stelzner began building a rep...

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130: How to Start a Social Enterprise with Scott Harrison of charity: water

130: How to Start a Social Enterprise with Scott Harrison of charity: water

For the past 10 years, Scott Harrison has made charity his business, and he's managed to raise $250 million and bring clean drinking water in people in more than 24 countries since he began his nonpro...

8 Feb 201736min

129: How Lootcrate Became the No.1 Fastest Growing Company in America with Matthew Arevalo

129: How Lootcrate Became the No.1 Fastest Growing Company in America with Matthew Arevalo

Many of us have been to one of those startup events where you're divided up into teams and have to whip up a company in the span of a weekend. You make great connections and have some fun, but typical...

1 Feb 201754min

128: The Godfather of Blogging Shares How to Create Content People Love - Darren Rowse of Problogger

128: The Godfather of Blogging Shares How to Create Content People Love - Darren Rowse of Problogger

The internet marketing scene is not exactly known for being grounded and humble. It's often as bombastic and self-inflated as a hip-hop rap battle. That’s why it comes as such a surprise to find that ...

25 Jan 201756min

127: The Psychological Triggers to Make Someone Buy with Sean D'Souza of Psychotactics

127: The Psychological Triggers to Make Someone Buy with Sean D'Souza of Psychotactics

If you're interesting in learning how to market more effectively and land more sales, a quick Google search will bring up thousands of results, each one promising that their specific tip will be the o...

22 Jan 201745min

126: Learn How  Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan Quit Her Job to Launch One of America's Fastest-Growing Businesses

126: Learn How Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan Quit Her Job to Launch One of America's Fastest-Growing Businesses

There are many reasons people choose to become entrepreneurs. Some want to make money, others want the freedom of owning their own businesses, and some, like Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, want to make an...

18 Jan 201746min

125: How to Build a Distributed Team for Fast Growth with Wade Foster of Zapier

125: How to Build a Distributed Team for Fast Growth with Wade Foster of Zapier

You can't talk about fast-growing SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) companies without mentioning Zapier. In about five years, they've amassed a customer base of over 1.5 million registered users, and grown...

11 Jan 201739min

124: What it Takes to Grow Multiple 7 Figure Online Businesses with Sol Orwell

124: What it Takes to Grow Multiple 7 Figure Online Businesses with Sol Orwell

Over the past 20 years or so, the common understanding of what an "entrepreneur" is has undergone some massive changes. It used to be that an entrepreneur was someone who wore a proper suit, courted i...

4 Jan 201746min

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