Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com: How to Not Get Screwed in Venture Financing

Matt will be sharing some first-hand advice on why modern unicorns are stumbling, outlining all the core mistakes of startups seeking funds. This humorous and enlightening talk will empower you to understand how to finance your business the right way, and how to avoid the traps and pitfalls most entrepreneurs make.

Q&A will follow the talk where you can ask Matt anything about the future of freelance economy, and building the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace.

About the Speaker:

Matt Barrie is an Australian technology entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of Freelancer.com - the world’s leading freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace. Matt was named the most influential person in technology in Australia by Smart Company in 2014.

Matt is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program at the Graduate School of Business and was previously a founder and CEO of Sensory Networks Inc., a vendor of high performance network security processors, which Intel Corporation acquired in 2013. He is also one of the worldwide Linkedin Influencers, along with Richard Branson, Barack Obama and Deepak Chopra, where he writes on the topics of entrepreneurship and technology. Freelancer.com was founded in 2009 and it listed on the ASX in November 2013

About Freelancer.com

Eight-time Webby award-winning Freelancer.com is the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted. More than 17.5 million registered users have posted over 9.2 million projects and contests to date in over 850 areas as diverse as website development, logo design, marketing, copywriting, astrophysics, aerospace engineering and manufacturing. Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the leading provider of secure online payments and online transaction management for consumers and businesses on the Internet. Freelancer Limited is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN.