09: The State of Freelance // Rachel Renock (Co-Founder & CEO of Wethos)

In this episode of 5to9, I had a chat with Rachel Renock, a self-proclaimed creative monster, a rogue lesbian, former freelancer, and now co-founder and CEO of Wethos, an all-in-one platform for freelancers to create proposals, send invoices, and get paid.

In 2016, Rachel co-founded a freelance creative studio that worked with non-profits. After putting together various project-based teams for her clients and making over $1.4M in a little over a year, she realized that there was a bigger problem to solve - helping millions of freelancers double their income and scale their businesses.

We talked about why freelancing is the future (according to data), the most important things for freelancers to learn, collaboration over competition, whether you should freelance in the current market condition, how she persisted in building Wethos after getting rejected by 150 investors then ultimately raised $12M, and more.

This is Rachel Renock for 5to9.