Vicoland focuses on building teams (“virtual companies” or vicos) with the appropriate mix of skills at the team level to execute on a project. Increasingly, these tasks are being routed to OpenAI’s ChatGPT for knowledge work like writing blog posts, generating meeting insights and follow-ups, or summarizing complex documents. Stay current with rapidly evolving skills models.

We spoke with Catalant, Contently, Fiverr, Topcoder, Toptal, Upwork, Vicoland, and 35 other players in the talent ecosystem to learn more. These small, but rapidly growing marketplaces ( Fiverr and Upwork have market caps over $6 billion and grew 42% and 32% YoY, respectively, last quarter) provide (see Figure 1): Freelance Talent Marketplaces Offer A Growing Stack Of Services This graphic has an associated spreadsheet that includes all data presented. Please access the spreadsheet for details.

In this session, we describe the role of freelancers in your on-demand talent strategy, how to work with freelancers safely and effectively, and the role of freelance talent marketplaces like Fiverr, Topcoder, Toptal, Upwork, and Vicoland.

We spoke with Catalant, Contently, Fiverr, Topcoder, Toptal, Upwork, Vicoland, and 33 other players in the talent ecosystem to learn more. These are rapidly growing marketplaces ( Fiverr and Upwork have market caps of over $3 billion and grew 77% and 35%, respectively, in 2021) and provide three kinds of services (see Figure 1): They help freelancers find work and build a business.

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