2. The Next Big Thing David Harrison Vice President of Engineering Freelancer.com email: david@freelancer.com twitter: @freelancer
3. It’s 2011. World Population 6,845,609,960 Number on the Internet 2,080,000,000 (30.3%) Source: Internet World Stats & United Nation
4. The other 70% of the world’s population are about to join the Internet.
5. Worldwide Internet Penetration 2011 North America 266 million users 77.4% penetration Europe 475 million users 58.4% penetration Asia 825m (of 3834m) 21.5% penetration Africa 110m (of 1014m) 10.9% penetration Latin America 204m (of 592) 34.5% penetration
9. We are the global labour exchange We Empower Entrepreneurs. Globally.
10. We provide the productivity tool to assist those with a spark of an idea turn it into reality.
11. “If I just have the spark of an idea now, I can get a designer in Taiwan to design it. I can get a factory in China to produce a prototype. I can get a factory in Vietnam to mass manufacture it. I can use Amazon.com to handle fulfilment. I can use Freelancer.com to find someone to do my logo and manage my backroom. And I can do all this at incredibly low prices. The one thing that is not a commodity and never will be is that spark of an idea.” “America’s Dream Team” (Tom Friedman) New York Times Editorial 2010
12. Freelancer Globally Started in 2004 World’s largest outsourcing marketplace > 2,600,000 users from >234 countries / regions > 1,000,000 posted projects to date > $95,000,000 spent through site to date,roughly equivalent to saving western businesses $500m to $1b in costs.. in $200 projects.. In top 250 websites globally (Alexa)
13. We needed a platform that could scale to meet our vision
25. > 678G of returned results traffic per dayOur web hosts serve > 29M HTTP requests per day
26. Scale, scale, scale ! Next stop 10M users, then onto 100M ! Rolling out instances in more geographic locations(Europe, Singapore, Tokyo) Route 53 Amazon Linux AMI What next ?
