“Through Upwork, I got access to high-caliber talent on terms that fit. I dreamed of being an entrepreneur but, like most female founders, I’m also self-funded; I don’t come from a wealthy family, I have a mortgage, I have an elderly parent I care for. Without the opportunity to work …

“Upwork is great for crowdsourcing ideas without letting budgets get out of hand, especially when you don’t know where to start, you want to try something new, or you want to get fresh ideas to take something to the next level.”

“I love the platform and the amount of talent I have access to. We really couldn’t be this far along without help from the talent on Upwork.”

"[Upwork] enables us to have multiple freelancers with different expertise helping us in different locations at any time we need."

“Even if [flexible talent] is not the content expert on a course, nearly every course has been touched by one.”

"Program consultants really allowed me to get out of just putting out fires to taking the time to really strategize."

“The cost savings are great, but the real value [of flexible talent] is getting distributed expertise.”

“Upwork is a great forum to trial talent at no risk and with great speed. Having the flexibility to invite someone to a job and get a response within minutes or hours is really important.”

“I attribute our success building and scaling our startup to Upwork. It’s how we recruit new people, manage payments and track deadlines.”

“If we have any issue, my first thought is to go to Upwork and find talent who can help us think it through Upwork opened the door, and made it possible.”

“Using Upwork is a matter of effectiveness and efficiency. It’s all about being smarter on how we manage our time.”

"Upwork gives us the ability to scale work quickly and in a big way in response to changing business demand."

"The Upwork platform is really intuitive we’ve found success across the board.”

“I’m not aware of any other platform that’s as customizable as Upwork.”

“Upwork has allowed me to build a great distributed team and run a SaaS platform successfully.”