Learn the good, the bad, the ugly, and the amazing from experts who have successfully built teams of freelancers. Ray Slater Berry, Founder of DSLX, and Adam Morehead and Dave Huntley from Distributed will share what’s worked, what hasn’t, the challenges with adoption, the roles required, and how organizations can go from tactical to strategic when it comes to adopting distributed and elastic teams of highly engaged, highly qualified, talent.
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Chat Transcript:
00:10:57 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Hi, everyone!
00:10:59 Adam: Hello everyone!
00:11:10 Ana Kramarenko: Hi everyone!
00:11:15 Carin-Isabel Knoop: howdy!
00:11:19 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty: Hey Hey everyone
00:12:58 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Great to see some familiar faces in here!
00:16:24 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Hey, Cris!
00:16:40 Cris R: Reacted to “Hey, Cris!” 😄
00:20:10 Ben Ross: Nice to meet you all https://www.linkedin.com/in/benkross/
00:20:20 Ben Ross: Hi Linda!
00:20:26 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: 👋
00:20:50 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty: Great to be here guys https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolineayoub/
00:20:53 Ben Ross: FlexC has been an amazing partner!
00:20:56 Eryn Peters: FlexC is awesome 💪
00:21:29 Linda Mann: Thanks Eryn!
00:21:33 Link: Hi there! Link here from AZ! CEO of linkingdreams.global https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkdreams/
00:22:02 Link: Melisa is that with Marily Nika?
00:22:15 craig: Hey Melisa can you share that course on here please?
00:22:48 Vanessa Miller: June 13th Future of Work event in Boston at the Harvard Club, put on by Ardent Partners
00:22:51 Vanessa Miller: https://futureofworkexchange.com/live/
00:23:27 Melisa Liberman: Jon Younger’s podcast episode – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-115-what-it-takes-to-succeed-as-an-independent/id1559934704?i=1000614427561
00:23:35 Vanessa Miller: Reacted to “Jon Younger’s podcas…” 👍
00:23:41 Cris R: Reacted to “Jon Younger’s podcas…” 👍
00:23:43 craig: Reacted to “Jon Younger’s podcas…” 👍
00:23:46 John Healy: Reacted to “Jon Younger’s podcas…” 👍
00:23:56 John Healy: Reacted to “June 13th Future of …” 👍
00:24:38 Uzochukwu Okafor: Reacted to “Jon Younger’s podcas…” 👍
00:24:55 Lorraine Charles, Na’amal: Future of Work Event: https://tascplatform.org/event/the-future-of-work-summit-2023
00:25:04 Melisa Liberman: @Robert Reich’s AI for Executives course: https://robertreich.co/
00:25:07 Uzochukwu Okafor: Reacted to “@Robert Reich’s AI f…” 👍
00:25:19 Robert Reich: Reacted to “@Robert Reich’s AI f…” 👍
00:25:23 Brandon Dwight – OA: REGISTER FOR TRANSFORM WORK: https://open-assembly.com/transform-work/register
00:25:31 craig: Reacted to “@Robert Reich’s AI f…” with ❤️
00:26:57 Brandon Dwight – OA: Ray Slater Berry, Founder of DSLX: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayslaterberry/
00:27:24 Brandon Dwight – OA: DSLX: https://dslxcontent.com/
00:27:50 Brandon Dwight – OA: Adam Morehead, Chief Community Officer at Distributed https://www.linkedin.com/in/adroc/
00:28:15 Brandon Dwight – OA: Dave Huntley, Chief Technology Officer at Distributed https://www.linkedin.com/in/davehuntley/
00:28:26 Brandon Dwight – OA: Distributed: https://www.distributed.com
00:31:09 Rashid Sial: Way to go, Adam!
00:31:13 Rashid Sial: It’s so exciting to see you build a community from the ground up – for the 2nd time!
00:32:25 Adam: Reacted to “It’s so exciting to …” 👍
00:32:25 Brandon Dwight – OA: Reacted to “It’s so exciting to …” 👍
00:34:40 Robert Reich: Question for any of the presenters: How are you ensuring that a dependable member of your community, who wishes to freelance for X hours at Y rate, will have consistent work availability?
00:36:07 Adam: So we have this concept of Income Predictability
00:38:55 Janice Stevenor Dale: Isn’t the length of work directly correlated to labor laws in the state/country you’re working within?
00:42:44 Ben Ross: Mark has a question and then I have a couple
00:42:57 Brandon Dwight – OA: Reacted to “Mark has a question …” 👍
00:43:46 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Reacted to “Mark has a question …” 👍
00:44:37 Adam: Reacted to “Isn’t the length of …” 👍
00:47:14 Robert Reich: Question: Having managed sizable technical freelance projects previously, where I experienced a loss of talent mid-project, I’m interested in learning how your companies reduce both strategic and technical debt while ensuring the timely delivery of projects.
00:47:26 Martin Kaufman: “Talent satisfaction” is probably an under appreciated marketplace performance driver. Acquiring all that talent isn’t that hard…but keeping a high % of it working and satisfied is difficult. There’s a very good chance that un(der)-utilized freelancers are saying more about your brand than you are. Great to hear how these two companies address this! Kudos!
00:48:42 Robert Reich: Reacted to ““Talent satisfaction…” with ❤️
00:49:04 Adam: Reacted to ““Talent satisfaction…” with ❤️
00:49:39 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty: Reacted to ““Talent satisfaction…” with ❤️
00:52:01 Ben Ross: Like this post if you’re ok with Ai assisted content
00:52:07 Ben Ross: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍🏽
00:52:11 Cristina Rojas – DSLX: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
00:52:25 Ella: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
00:52:29 Alicia Kellstrom: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” with 👍
00:52:32 Brandon Dwight – OA: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
00:53:05 Adam Morehead: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
00:53:13 Matt Jensen: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
00:54:14 Ben Ross: Rarely does anyone know what they want to build 😃
00:55:27 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Reacted to “Rarely does anyone k…” 😂
00:55:38 Ray (He/Him) DSLX: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 🤖
00:56:42 Vanessa Miller: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍🏽
00:56:50 Vanessa Miller: Reacted to “Rarely does anyone k…” 😂
00:57:09 Elina Jutelyte, FreelanceBusiness.eu: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” with 👍🏽
00:57:37 williams: Se ha reaccionado a “Like this post if …” 👍
00:58:29 Bob Pulver: Reacted to “Like this post if yo…” 👍
01:01:53 Link: Q: out of the freelancers that work within your platform, how many have been hired to work for your platform?
01:02:02 Jon Younger: Really interesting conversation. Elina J, how are you?
01:04:30 Robert Reich: Thanks everyone, I appreciate the sharing and the conversation
01:04:35 Brandon Dwight – OA: Reacted to “Thanks everyone, I a…” 👍
01:05:18 Jon Younger: Thanks so much to the speakers. Great conversation as always!
01:05:21 Adam Morehead: Replying to “Q: out of the freela…” I’m a big fan of asking the community to help with everything. So most of Dave’s team are freelancers from he community. A lot of my community efforts/asks are also managed by freelancers in the community
01:05:36 Caroline Ayoub – Khibraty: Reacted to “Thanks so much to th…” ❤️
01:05:47 Adam Morehead: Replying to “Q: out of the freela…” Dave was a Distributed freelancer and is now CTO etc.
01:06:38 Adam Morehead: Replying to “Q: out of the freela…” I also track this as a metric (where we look at who is active) we have Distributed as part of that data
01:07:11 Link: Reacted to “I also track this as…” 👍
01:07:35 Ben Ross: Reacted to “Thanks everyone, I a…” 👍
01:08:01 Elina Jutelyte, FreelanceBusiness.eu: Thank you everyone, excellent discussion!
01:08:21 Martin Kaufman: Reacted to “Thank you everyone, …” 👍
01:08:34 Mark Hannant: Great discussion as ever. Thanks all
01:08:46 Bob Newhouse: Thanks all. Bob
01:08:52 Adam Morehead: Replying to ““Talent satisfaction…” Big piece of my ask of people joining us is to understand this
01:09:01 Amna Aslam: Thanks everyone
01:09:03 Adam Morehead: Thank you everyone!!
THANK YOU TO ALL WHO JOINED!!!
