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.

b'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\\n \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'