Ep. 80 - Steve King, Industry Overview

Leaders, Jon Younger and Steve King are the brains behind many of our industries leading stats. What’s unique about Steve is that he’s the perfect example of freelancing becoming the natural evolution of work. Steve wasn’t a pissed off employee that wanted to ‘ditch the 9-5 to sit on a beach’. He was a VP & GM at leading companies like Lotus Development and Macromedia. In terms of the corporate ladder, he made it, yet he chose to blaze the solopreneur path instead through his firm Emergent Research, There are 7 massive themes that Steve and I discuss. There’s now a middle class to the freelance economy 55% of individuals have been independent at some point in their life 60% of Americans don’t have the risk profile of a freelancer There was 20%+ growth from 2021 to 2022, with full time freelancers as the leading segment Freelancing is overwhelmingly chosen, and freelancers have the highest levels of fulfillment Misclassification is protecting 25% of the population at the expense of the entire freelancer population We’ll also break down MBO Partners recent State of Independence in America 2022 Report. Make sure to check out Steve's leader portal: https://humancloud.substack.com/s/leaders