GE Ep 31 [2014]: How vWorker CEO Ian Ippolito Saved His Business After Losing 4 Million Visitors Overnight

Published: March 30, 2019, 1:30 p.m.

Hear how\xa0Ian Ippolito, former founder of V-Worker (today known as Freelancer.com, and previously\xa0known as Rent-a-Coder) stumbled into Internet marketing success not once, but twice.\n Ian holds a degree in computer science and started out his career company-hopping and consulting before growing\xa0frustrated with\xa0the roadblocks to innovation and change in being an employee. He decided to launch Planet Source Code for coders and attracted upwards of 4 million new visitors a month before the dot com crash imploded his business. Faced with mounting bills and a flatlining business, he restructured his idea to connect workers with employers who needed coders. That idea became known as vWorker.\n Click here for show notes and transcript.\n Leave some feedback:\n Who should I interview next?\xa0Please let me know on\xa0Twitter\xa0or in the comments below.\n Did you enjoy this episode?\xa0If so, leave a\xa0short review here.\n Subscribe\xa0to\xa0Growth Everywhere on iTunes.\n Get the non-iTunes RSS feed\n Connect with Eric Siu:\n Growth Everywhere\n Single Grain\n Twitter @ericosiu