Intro

Helping knowledge workers and businesses connect in a work marketplace is Upwork’s central mission. A new wave of freelance workers is disrupting typical hiring channels and helping enterprises fill their talent and skills gaps. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Upwork CEO and President Hayden Brown sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to outline the company’s product suite, approach to over 830,000 customers and changing dynamics of work. She discusses its core offering, investments for the enterprise segment and recently launched AI agent, UMA. Listen in to learn about the movement of global freelancers, which number over 250,000 globally, and the sea changes underway in filling the demand for AI talent.