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Meta, het moederbedrijf van onder meer Facebook en Instagram, stopt met de ondersteuning van non fungible tokens. Dat heeft het hoofd commercie en fin-tech bekendgemaakt op Twitter. Van de grootste techbedrijven was Meta bij uitstek de partij die interesse had voor blockchain-toepassingen, zoals cryptovaluta en NFT's. Er werd meermaals gesproken over de integratie daarvan op platforms Facebook en Instagram, vooral in de loop van 2020 en 2021. Uit een draadje op Twitter van Meta's Stephane Kasriel blijkt nu echter dat die ondersteuning zal wordt afgebouwd: "We gaan NFT's afschalen om makers, mensen en bedrijven op andere manieren te ondersteunen." Dat moet onder meer gebeuren door te focussen op chatdiensten en verschillende mogelijkheden om geld te verdienen met korte video's. Ondertussen wordt er juist een nieuwe collectie NFT's gelanceerd (nota bene anno 2023) rondom Koekiemonster van Sesamstraat, zo meldt Variety. Voor zestig dollar per stuk kun je één van de 5.555 exemplaren bemachtigen. Verder in deze Tech Update: Microsoft heeft een enorme supercomputer gebruikt om ChatGPT te trainen, schrijft Bloomberg. Nintendo is nog lang niet van plan om met een nieuwe spelcomputer te komen, zo geeft Doug Bowser, directeur van Nintendo of America, aan tegenover The Associated Press. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stai ascoltando il recap settimanale gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.Amazon: ancora guai con i lavoratori. La Divisione dei diritti umani dello stato di New York ha presentato una denuncia contro Amazon per presunte discriminazioni sulle lavoratrici in gravidanza e disabili.Facebook Pay diventa Meta Pay. L'azienda ha deciso di rinominare anche la sua piattaforma di pagamenti in ottica di metaverso. Ad annunciarlo è stato Stephane Kasriel, a capo della divisione Commerce & Financial Technologies del gigante americano.Come i marketer usano i social media per far crescere il business. 1 marketer su 4 preferisce i video brevi in loop. Nonostante l'adozione lenta, il 47% degli esperti di marketing vuole saperne di più sull'utilizzo di TikTok per le aziende.

Stai ascoltando un estratto gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.Spotify apre agli NFT: al via i primi test. La piattaforma di streaming ha confermato l'avvio della fase beta del progetto che permetterà agli artisti di mostrare i loro token non fungibili in accompagnamento a brani e album. I primi ad essere coinvolti sono Steve Aoki e The Wombats, produttore e dj il primo, gruppo musicale indie rock di Liverpool il secondo. Il test è disponibile per alcuni utenti su Android negli Stati Uniti e attualmente include collezionabili da acquistare con un rimando al negozio digitale di OpenSea. Facebook Pay diventa Meta Pay. L'azienda ha deciso di rinominare anche la sua piattaforma di pagamenti in ottica di metaverso. Ad annunciarlo è stato Stephane Kasriel, a capo della divisione Commerce & Financial Technologies del gigante americano, citando future integrazioni con la blockchain e le opere d'arte in Nft. "Immaginate un mondo in cui intrattenitori e atleti possano vendere Nft ai fan, da mostrare nelle loro case virtuali su Horizon" si legge in un suo blog post. Apple verso lo standard di ricarica Ue. Cupertino potrebbe cambiare la porta di ricarica sugli iPhone 15, in arrivo nel 2023. La mossa porterebbe al passaggio dall'odierno Lightning allo standard Usb-C, in risposta alle continue pressioni dell'Unione Europea sull'adozione di uno standard di alimentazione unico per i dispositivi tecnologic. Secondo Bloomberg il colosso americano starebbe lavorando su accessori, inclusi AirPods e periferiche quali mouse e tastiere, che si ricaricano tramite Usb-c.

#Bitcoin #MarkZuckerberg #NayibBukeleI'd like to welcome everyone to my new PODCASTDave's Daily Crypto TakeIn this channel I will be providing you with news on a daily basis about cryptocurrency, bitcoin, blockchain, FIAT. My main purpose is to share UNBIASED news and updates. Ultimately I learn and hopefully you learn while I go on this journey.ARTICLES used in today's video:https://ambcrypto.com/el-salvadors-pro-bitcoin-fm-fires-back-at-imfs-insult/El Salvador's pro-Bitcoin FM fires back at IMF's ‘insult'The International Monetary Fund warned El Salvador to drop Bitcoin as legal tender. Not just once, or twice, but at least 4-5 times in the past. In fact, even the Executive directors urged El Salvador to detach Bitcoin's status as legal tender in the country. What's more, in a recent release, the IMF insisted that El Salvador dissolve its $150-million trust fund incorporated at the time of its policy decision.Agree to disagreeEl Salvador's Finance Minister Alejandro Zelaya responded to recent demands from the International Monetary Fund. And, as expected, he remains undeterred from his ‘pro-BTC' stance.https://decrypt.co/91899/hacker-steals-320-million-solana-ethereum-bridge-wormholeHacker Steals $320 Million From Solana, Ethereum Bridge WormholeWormhole, a protocol that allows users to move their tokens and NFTs between Solana and Ethereum, has confirmed that it suffered an exploit of 120,000 Wrapped Ethereum, worth over $320 million—higher than the $250 million originally suspected."ETH will be added over the next hours to ensure wETH is backed 1:1," it posted on Twitter, adding: "We are working to get the network back up quickly."https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-mining-revenue-6-month-low-downtrend/Bitcoin Mining Revenue Plummets To 6-month Low Amid DowntrendOn-chain data shows Bitcoin miner revenues have now declined to six-month lows as the price of the crypto has continued to struggle recently.Bitcoin Miner Revenues Fall To 6-Month LowsAs per the latest weekly report from Arcane Research, the BTC miner revenues have now dropped to lows not seen since six months ago.https://www.vulture.com/2022/02/hitpiece-nft-musicians-criticize.htmlMusicians Rage at NFT Site Auctioning Songs Without PermissionDon't worry, your favorite indie band didn't get into selling NFTs overnight. A new NFT platform called HitPiece has caught heat from a number of musicians — largely indie bands — for selling NFTs of their music without permission. Per a description on its website that has since been taken down, “HitPiece lets fans collect NFTs of your favorite songs.” What that seemed to mean in practice was music was available on HitPiece, like a streaming service, to be turned into NFTs without consent from musicians. (To backtrack: An NFT, or nonfungible token, is a unique electronic thing that exists on the blockchain, which is what also powers cryptocurrency.) As NFTs have gained traction in the music and art communities over the past several months, many have criticized them for negatively impacting the environment via the blockchain and just not making sense.https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/02/02/death-knell-for-mark-zuckerberg-s-crypto-dreams-after-regulators-block-meta-s-diem?utm_source=flipboard.com&utm_campaign=feeds_money&utm_medium=referralDeath knell for Mark Zuckerberg's crypto dreams after regulators block Meta's DiemA once-ambitious but now faltering Facebook-backed digital currency project known as Diem is dead, its assets sold to bank holding company Silvergate Capital.Silvergate and the Diem Association announced the sale on Tuesday. Meta, which owns Facebook, did not have a comment.A Facebook spokesperson, however, pointed to tweets by Stephane Kasriel, head of Meta's cryptocurrency wallet Novi, that said the decision to sell was not made by Meta, but by the Diem Association."We hope that the Association's sale of their assets to @silvergatebank will allow the project's vision to live on. Because we still believe in the shared financial inclusion mission," Kasriel wrote.https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/https://coinmarketcap.com/Please subscribe, like, and share so that more and more people can view this content.DISCLAIMER: I will never give any financial advice. And my channel is not considered official Financial Advice. Please do your research before purchasing any cryptocurrency.Thank you very much DaveSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/daves-daily-crypto-take/donations

Stai ascoltando un estratto gratuito di Ninja PRO, la selezione quotidiana di notizie per i professionisti del digital business. Con Ninja PRO puoi avere ogni giorno marketing insight, social media update, tech news, business events e una selezione di articoli di approfondimento dagli esperti della Redazione Ninja. Vai su www.ninja.it/ninjapro per abbonarti al servizio.Un anno su Twitter. Il social ha pubblicato la sua analisi annuale delle conversazioni sulla piattaforma, a livello mondiale ma anche in Italia. Dai Måneskin fino alle vittorie sportive agli Europei e alle Olimpiadi, dal dibattito sul green pass ai commenti sui principali film della stagione, gli italiani si sono ritrovati su Twitter per scoprire e commentare gli ultimi aggiornamenti in diretta. Il tweet che ha ricevuto più like e retweet da parte degli italiani è stato quello di Fedez in occasione della sua partecipazione al Concerto del Primo Maggio Rai. WhatsApp testa Novi. Ad annunciarlo è Stephane Kasriel, direttore dell'unità crypto e fintech di Meta. Ha spiegato che l'app di messaggistica ha iniziato a testare le transazioni tramite il wallet Novi, per ora su un “numero limitato di persone” negli USA. La funzionalità permetterà agli utenti di inviare e ricevere denaro su WhatsApp “istantaneamente e senza commissioni”. Oggi sposi, nel metaverso. La coppia si era conosciuta sotto forma di avatar durante un evento virtuale e ha celebrato il proprio matrimonio negli ambienti virtuali della società Virbela, che ha ricreato l'esperienza del matrimonio dal vivo con personaggi progettati appositamente per il giorno delle nozze.

Meta platform's Whatsapp has launched a limited program of its cryptocurrency wallet called Novi – and now – a limited number of people in the US can send and receive crypto inside a chat. Novi head Stephane Kasriel announced the news in a tweet on Wednesday. NFT marketplace OpenSea has denied it is planning an initial public offering (IPO), amidst a backlash from the cryptocurrency community. No IPO would mean no token for its early adopters, much like the US leading crypto exchange Coinbase, which only went public in April – nine years after being founded.

Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been ordered to sell Giphy by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, BBC reports. Meta, until recently known as Facebook, bought the GIF-sharing search engine last year in a deal reportedly valued at $315 million. Meta planned to integrate Giphy's database of GIFs with Instagram, according to the BBC report. But the CMA ruled the purchase unfair to competing for social-media platforms. In May 2020, when Meta announced its acquisition of Giphy, it said 50 percent of the GIF search engine's traffic already came from Facebook platforms—half of that from Instagram. Giphy also provides GIFs to competitors such as TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Facebook's cryptocurrency head David Marcus is leaving the company, The Verge reports. The former PayPal executive joined Facebook in 2014 to run Messenger but eventually took over plans to launch a new cryptocurrency and wallet. These were known at the time as Libra and Calibra, respectively, but are now called Novi. “While there's still so much to do right on the heels of hitting an important milestone with Novi launching—and I remain as passionate as ever about the need for change in our payments and financial systems—my entrepreneurial DNA has been nudging me for too many mornings in a row to continue ignoring it,” Marcus said on his Facebook page and Twitter. Novi's VP of product Stephane Kasriel, previously an early PayPal employee and the CEO of Upwork, will take over the leadership. Twitter has banned users from sharing photos or videos of private individuals without their permission on its platform, the company said in a blogpost. Twitter is updating its existing private information policy and expanding its scope to include “private media.” Under its existing policy, publishing other people's private information, such as phone numbers, addresses, and IDs, is already not allowed on Twitter. This includes threatening to expose private information or incentivising others to do so. Microsoft has been asked by shareholders to publish a report on sexual harassment within the company, CNBC reports. Shareholders approved a proposal asking the company's board to publish a report on the effectiveness of its workplace sexual harassment policies in a rare vote of support for an activist initiative. Microsoft's board had recommended that shareholders vote against the proposal, but it received 77.97 percent of all votes, according to a regulatory filing. The decision comes a year and a half after Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stepped down from his seat on the company's board. Reports at the time had said that Gates had tried to start a relationship with an employee in 2000—prompting a board investigation. The proposal asks for the details of investigations on executives—including Gates—as well as the number of cases the company has looked into and what was done about them. Xiaomi's Redmi Note 11T 5G Android smartphone has been launched in India. The phone was previously launched in China alongside two other new Redmi Note 11 series phones last month, Android Central reports. Xiaomi's latest budget 5G phone has a 6.6-inch LCD with a 90Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate. It is equipped with MediaTek's 6nm Dimensity 810 chipset, paired with up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The phone is expected to go on sale in India from December 7 for a starting price of ₹16,999 (about $227), according to Android Central.

Think we'll be going back to old ways of working post-pandemic? Think again, says Stephane Kasriel, former CEO of freelancing website Upwork. He speaks to Tim about why he believes remote work is a win-all situation for employers, employees and society. He explains how to overcome challenges and reveals the top things your business should consider when planning your future remote work strategies. You can find more insights at the Tessian blog and you can subscribe to the Tessian newsletter to stay up to date with all our Human Layer Security news.

Ils ne sont pas nombreux ceux qui ont repris les reines d'une boite US (Upwork dans son cas), et qui l'ont emmené jusqu'à l'IPO. Stephane est un peu un ovni, diplômé de l'X, Stanford et de l'Insead, il coche toutes les cases d'une carrière sans fautes. Après avoir dirigé Paypal en France, il est catapulté a la tête des produits consumers de Paypal en Californie, puis rejoint Zong, la startup de David Marcus, qui se fait racheter par Paypal pour $200M+, où il retourne du coup

On Thursday, Protocol hosted its first Virtual Meetup, on the future of work — and how coronavirus will change the way we work long after the virus is gone. Our hosts were Protocol's Lauren Hepler and David Pierce. Our guests: Noelle Tassey, CEO of Alley; Stephane Kasriel, the former CEO of Upwork, and a member of CA's Future of Work Commission; Peter Leroe-Munoz, General Counsel and VP of tech and innovation at Silicon Valley Leadership Group; and Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at Glassdoor.We're doing more of these meetups over the next few weeks, so sign up to join us live for the next one! 

Welcome to another all-new edition of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast. This week’s episode features a conversation with Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork. Stephane joins me to discuss the continued growth of the digital and on-demand staffing industry, Upwork’s new Freelancing in America research study, the company’s partnership with Workforce Logiq, and much more.

Millennial and Generation Z keynote speaker and author, Ryan Jenkins, welcomes Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork, to the Next Generation Catalyst Podcast.  The topic discussed is how Millennials and Gen Z managers will reshape how we work. We also cover...   UpWork’s 3rd Annual “Future of Workforce Report (click here to review) How the younger generations are shaping the future of work How remote working is challenging how organizations are structured Examples of organizations that are successfully engaging freelancers The role of higher education in the future of freelancing How the gig economy will change the skills needed to thrive in the future And more...

Another all-new episode of the Contingent Workforce Weekly podcast features an exciting discussion with Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel and Workforce Logiq CEO Jim Burke. We chat with Stephane and Jim about the new partnership between the two technology providers and what it means for both the digital staffing and contingent workforce management markets.

Stephane Kasriel on Unlearn, Melissa Perri on Build by Drift, Will Larson on Software Engineering Daily, April Dunford on Product Love, and Claudio Perrone on Agile Atelier. I’d love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting July 22, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the fortnight when I started sharing links to them to my social network followers. STEPHANE KASRIEL ON UNLEARN The Unlearn podcast featured Stephane Kasriel with host Barry O’Reilly. Barry asked Stephane about what unlearning he has had to do as CEO of Upwork. Stephane said that when Upwork started, they developed software in a waterfall process. Development cycles were long and it was frustrating for people. When the product failed in the field, the level of investment was high and everybody would be pointing fingers at everybody else. When they switched to an Agile model, there was a lot of unlearning to be done. They stopped trying to specify everything up front and instead tried to build minimum viable products, get feedback from customers, and iterate quickly. When they went looking for Agile trainers in 2012, it was hard to find anyone willing and able to train Upwork’s remote teams. Many trainers at the time told them that being Agile meant being colocated. Today, there are many companies doing distributed Agile development and some best practices have been built up and shared. I liked what Stephane had to say about company values. He said that what you don’t want as a value is one in which you are a good person if you have it and you are a bad person if you don’t. You want instead to have values that say, “This company is not for everybody. If you don’t believe in these values, there are plenty of companies that more closely match your values and you should go there. But if you want to be here and you want to be successful, you should be excited about this company’s values.” Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ceo-school-and-the-future-of-work-with-stephane-kasriel/id1460270044?i=1000443495925 MELISSA PERRI ON BUILD BY DRIFT The Build by Drift podcast featured Melissa Perri with host Maggie Crowley. Maggie started out by asking Melissa how she defined the build trap she references in her book Escaping The Build Trap (https://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Build-Trap-Effective-Management/dp/149197379X/). Melissa says that the build trap is a situation an organization finds itself in when it gets too concerned with how many features it is shipping and not concerned enough with the value for the customer and the business that those features are producing. She says that these businesses fail to retrospect on the impact that the features they shipped had on customers and the business. Maggie asked how companies get into the build trap in the first place. Startups, Melissa says, don’t typically have this problem, but as they scale and get more money, the distance to customers increases, they talk to customers less, and have more runway. They tend to go into an execution mode where they just keep asking themselves, “What’s the next thing we can build?” and forget to go back to their customers and make sure that what they build for them is producing value for them. Maggie described the challenges Drift faces in having teams that locally optimize for particular features and Melissa says this comes back to how the company thinks about strategy. Small companies don’t need a strategic framework but, as you scale, you want all the new teams you are creating to move in the same direction and a strategic framework can help with this. Maggie asked what Melissa prescribes when she consults with a company that is stuck in the build trap. Melissa instead gave an answer on how she assesses a company before making a prescription. She first looks for how the company sets strategy and how it deploys it. Second, she looks to see if the company has the right people in the right roles. She also looks at whether the company has the right processes to learn from customers and incorporate feedback. Next, she looks at product operations, such as a cadence for revisiting decisions and the right data infrastructure to support decisions. Last, she looks at culture and how people are incentivized. Maggie asked what Melissa would change first if the company had problems in all of those areas. Melissa says that she starts by making sure the company has good product leaders and product managers who can learn from those leaders. Many companies had product leaders who didn’t start in product management themselves and can’t train or help the product managers. As Maggie points out in this podcast, this echoes what Marty Cagan said when she had him as a guest in an earlier episode. I referenced that Build by Drift episode in the 14th episode of this podcast, named Safety Is Not A Priority. Melissa says she spends a lot of time translating what the teams are working on into something that executives can get behind because executives don’t care about the list of features that the teams are shipping; they care about what those features are going to do. Melissa says that storytelling in these situations is about relating your story to the goals people care about. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/whats-the-build-trap-what-does-it-mean-for-product-managers/id1445050691?i=1000443704053 Website link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/fbfcff04 WILL LARSON ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DAILY The Software Engineering Daily podcast featured Will Larson with host Jeff Meyerson. Jeff started by asking whether Will thinks Google, where they once had a very flat management hierarchy, could work with no managers today. Will said that today’s hyper-scaling companies are so fast-growing that you need people to help manage that growth while dealing with tools and systems that are constantly becoming out of date. Jeff asked about the psychological ramifications of working in an environment of rapid growth. Will said that the best part of rapid growth is every week you raise your head and look around and see some really smart, talented person who is sitting next to you and wasn’t there the week before and can help. During change, he says, you have to stay open. Don’t try to control the change but you can help to facilitate it. You should be aware of your needs and take action to ensure those needs are being met so you can be the person you want to be for longer, rather than peaking in your first months in a role. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/elegant-puzzle-with-will-larson/id1019576853?i=1000441481446 Website link: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/06/14/elegant-puzzle-with-will-larson/ APRIL DUNFORD ON PRODUCT LOVE The Product Love podcast featured April Dunford with host Eric Boduch. April talked about product positioning. She says that many treat the product positioning exercise as a Mad Libs-style template to be filled in. The actual thinking of how to position your product is often ignored. She says that the first thing you have to do is get a handle on what the real competitive alternatives to your product are in the minds of your customers. For many startups, their real competitor is Excel, or hiring an intern, or doing it manually. Next, she says, is to look at what you have feature-wise that the competitive alternatives do not. This is usually a giant list of things. As you go down this list, you ask yourself what value for customers each feature enables. She says that an interesting thing happens at this point: the value tends to theme out. There are usually two or three big buckets that three quarters of your features fall into. Those buckets get you to your differentiated value. That, she says, is your secret sauce. She uses the analogy of building a fishing net specifically for tuna. You have a choice. You can travel to the part of the ocean where you will find tuna and see if your net works or you can go to the part of the ocean where there are all kinds of fish, throw the net in, and see what you pull up. People at startups often think that a certain segment of the market is going to love their product, but they might be surprised to learn that there is a segment that they didn’t even think of that is actually dying for their product. You don’t want to get the positioning so tight that you exclude those people. You want to keep it loose, cast the net wide, and see what happens. April says she doesn’t believe in product-market fit. She says that nobody has given her a good answer to the question, “How do you know you got product-market fit?” You may have a product that people like, but if you don’t know why, you don’t know if it’s at risk of going away or tapping out its market. She asks, “If I can’t measure when I have product-market fit, why am I even trying to get product-market fit?” Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/april-dunford-joins-product-love-to-talk-about-product/id1343610309?i=1000441988263 Website link: https://soundcloud.com/productcraft/april-dunford-joins-product-love-to-talk-about-product-positioning CLAUDIO PERRONE ON AGILE ATELIER The Agile Atelier podcast featured Claudio Perrone with host Rahul Bhattacharya. Claudio talked about his Popcorn Flow model. He says that Popcorn Flow is based on a pragmatic anti-fragile philosophy and starts from the idea that inertia is our enemy and provides a set of principles and steps to fight inertia in organizations. I saw Claudio give a presentation on Popcorn Flow at the Agile Testing Days 2017 conference, so I was excited to find him being interviewed on a podcast. Popcorn Flow applies ideas from The Lean Startup to organizational change. As an entrepreneur, Claudio realized that in entrepreneurship you are dealing with an environment of extreme uncertainty and, as an Agile coach, he saw the same kind of environment of uncertainty in how people react to change. Lean Startup deals with environments of extreme uncertainty by running frequent experiments. Popcorn Flow applies the same approach of frequent experimentation to organizational change. Popcorn Flow is most known for its decision cycle of seven steps from which the POPCORN acronym is derived: Problems & Observations Options Possible experiments Committed Ongoing Review Next These steps are visualized like a Scrum board or Kanban board. Claudio gave an example of running through the seven steps for the problem of poor quality code: Problem: poor quality code Options: pair programming, test-driven development Possible experiments: pair program for three days and see if the code is better and see if we want to continue with the practice Committed: put a review date on the calendar for evaluating the results of the experiment Ongoing: Track the experiment as it proceeds Review: The experiment is not finished until you review it. Compare the reality against the expectation and discuss what you learned and what are you going to do next. Next: The review may indicate that you do not know enough yet, so you may choose to persist, launch a new experiment based on what you learned, or revisit the problem. I liked what Claudio had to say about Agile: “I felt it was about being humble. If we knew the perfect way of developing software, we would use the perfect way. It is because we don’t know that we start with what we have and we continuously inspect and adapt.” Claudio also talked about some of the principles of Popcorn Flow: If change is hard, make it continuous: borrowing ideas from continuous integration and delivery, replace big change programs with small incremental change and do it all the time. Small bets, big payoff (the venture capitalist principle): when you run a lot of experiments, it doesn’t matter that you failed. What matters is how much does it cost to fail and how much do you gain when you win. It is not ‘fail fast - fail often’, it is ‘learn fast - learn often’: without feedback, your experiments are not small bets and you are not experimenting; you are committing to what should instead be an option. 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With a $1.8bn market cap, Upwork is revolutionizing the way we work. As the head of the largest freelancer marketplace, Stephane Kasriel walks us through the operational metrics required to scale a billion dollar marketplace, from user retention to trust and safety. In addition to sharing how Upwork differentiates, Stephane recounts his experience merging the two leading competitors in the space to form Upwork and then ultimately taking the company public in a highly successful IPO. As Stephane shares his M&A integration tips and recounts each step of the IPO, you won't want to miss out on this episode!

CEO School and The Future of Work with Stephane Kasriel In this episode of the Unlearn Podcast, Barry O'Reilly speaks with Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork—the world’s largest freelancing platform where businesses and independent professionals connect and collaborate remotely. Upwork is driving the future of work conversation, and discovering what it really means along the way. Creating Capability To Continuously Change Stephane feels one of the most exciting aspects of the tech industry is how quickly it changes— a key competency he believes people must develop is adapting to that change, learning continuously, and unlearning what is no longer useful. He talks through two specific changes Upwork has experienced: the switch from traditional waterfall development to remote agile teams, and sourcing and clarifying Upwork’s values from within. Secrets To Distributed Agility Several years ago, no one believed that agile could work in teams that weren’t co-located, but Upwork—along with other companies like GitHub and Automatic—has demonstrated it can. It takes an open mind, strong culture of feedback and honest personal evaluation to understand if working remotely is a fit for you. Making this clear during hiring is crucial. Not everyone will be passionate about or motivated to work in a distributed manner—and that’s okay. It’s better to discover it as quickly as possible because it means the people who join your organization are aligned with the opportunities and affordances of distributed work. They’re happier, more productive and stay longer. Challenges Transiting To The Top Transitioning from one role to another can be challenging, but the transition to CEO is unique. There’s no CEO school. Stephane shares how he found his way by applying many of the strategies that made him successful as a product and engineering leader. Actively learning from the people around him—wherever they are in the hierarchy—helped guide this approach to lead the company forward. In the tech industry, where so many founders are CEOs, knowing where to step up and step back is key in creating a healthy culture within leadership teams. Stephane shows how he’s tried to let the smart people bring their skills to bear. Unlearning At The Global Level There are a handful of things reshaping the economy: automation technologies, the acceleration of the rate of technological change and innovation, and the geographic mismatch between where jobs are being lost and where they’re being created. Stephane talks about how these forces are causing changes in the labor market and how you need to approach learning to stay current. It’s the people who can be in the habit of doing new things, and consistently adding new small skills who are ultimately going to be successful. Stephane adds that if we can’t embrace change, we’re doomed. We’re part of the future that’s coming; we can be a part of making it happen, or let it happen to us. The Power of Remote Work Upwork is focused on making remote work possible, and that’s not just about profitability. When the cost of living becomes unbearable in the big tech centers, but other towns are dying for a lack of good jobs—the best solution can’t be for everyone to move to expensive cities. Responsible tech leaders need to abandon the idea of having their entire workforce in a single building in a big city. Many jobs do not need to be on-site, and they shouldn’t be. Society as a whole will be better when we start making growth and success inclusive of more people. It’s not a good outcome for the world to have a huge part of the population unemployed or underemployed. One of our most precious resources is the human mind, and we shouldn’t be wasting it.

Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, considers different pricing solutions and ways to improve the matching process as part of a business model redesign.

How changing the way we think about work can give workers freedom and flexibility. For more, go to Distributed.blog. Produced by Mark Armstrong and the team at Charts & Leisure: Jason Oberholtzer, Whitney Donaldson, Cole Stryker, Levi Sharpe, and Michael Simonelli. Theme music by Jason Oberholtzer. Cover art by Matt Avery.

Rate, review and subscribe to our podcast Pocket Dilemmas What is the future of work? How will technology, automation and AI change our jobs and will we and our children actually have jobs the way we do now? Will, in fact, the future be a battle between us and the machines? This week we have Jason Furman from Harvard Kennedy School and our Chief Economist Sergei Guriev as our guests to help us resolve this dilemma on our podcast Pocket Dilemmas. As usual, the hosts of the Pocket Dilemmas podcast are Jonathan Charles and Kerrie Law. Like what you hear? Review our podcast on iTunes, email us at dilemmas@ebrd.com, or tweet us @EBRD #EBRDdilemmas You can rate, review and subscribe to Pocket Dilemma on ITunes, Spotify and Soundcloud, or wherever you get your podcasts. - War of the Worlds (The Eve of the War) – Jeff Wayne (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eCAphdQPck) - AI isn’t taking our jobs – but it is changing how we recruit – Brian Peccarelli (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/ai-is-changing-the-way-we-recruit) - Will a robot take your job? – BBC news (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34066941) - Our soft skills can keep robots in their place – Ed Conway (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-soft-skills-can-keep-robots-in-their-place-hzzp609hl) - Global unemployment hits lowest point for 4 decades – Steve Johnson (https://www.ft.com/content/1e8f4cf4-f257-11e8-ae55-df4bf40f9d0d) - 5 things I’m telling my kids to prepare for in the future – Stephane Kasriel (https://www.fastcompany.com/90247298/5-things-im-telling-my-kids-to-prepare-them-for-the-future) - Work in transition – EBRD Transition Report 2018-2019 ( https://www.ebrd.com/transition-report-201819) - Are we living in a time of unprecedented migration? Hein de Haas (https://sharingperspectivesfoundation.com/video-lecture/video-1/)

The economy is in a very odd place right now. The overall numbers are great in the United States. Unemployment is low, growth is decent, several companies have been raising the wages of blue-collar employees.   But at the same time, stable, full-time jobs with benefits can be hard to come by. To make ends meet and improve their quality of life, lots of people are joining the gig economy, or doing other kinds of temporary work.   These observations about the state of work and the economy led me to a conversation with Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork. Upwork is a digital platform where people who have skills can put those skills out for hire, either by the project or on a longer-term basis. I met Stephane at CNBC’s Productivity at Work event, where he gave a talk about how employment is changing. We took it further, to talk about geopolitics, his journey as an executive, and what today’s workers need to know to seize control of their careers.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As advances in AI and robotics threaten to put millions of people out of jobs, there is profound concern about the future of work in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Will human ingenuity dream up new forms of productive employment? Is the gig economy going to become the new norm and if so, can the rights workers have won over the last two centuries of struggle be protected? Joining us for episode 6 of ‘Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ are Andrew Maynard, Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University, Jane Humphries, Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trades Union Confederation, Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science and Smith-Zadeh Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Stephane Kasriel, CEO of Upwork; Sue Duke, Senior Director of Public Policy at LinkedIn, and Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium.

This week, Travis and Stewart continue their Web Summit series of interviews with the awesome Stephane Kasriel of Upwork, which connects more than 12 million freelancers with over 5 million customers. We find out how it manages such a diverse and expansive community, and what has changed since mobile became dominant.   And in the news, it is all about how machine learning is transforming marketing technology. Maybe in the future, marketers will be able to focus on being creative again, instead of being technologists. Oh, and we brag a little in this episode. Sorry about that, but someone has to do it.  

On IN THE BALANCE this week, we look at the so-called gig economy - where employees are matched to short-term work via online platforms - something which is changing how we all go about looking for work. In the West, it challenges the idea of what people can expect from employment - a job for life with a salary and benefits is becoming less common, causing worry for some. But in other parts of the world it's a different story. In emerging economies, new technologies enable prospective employees to log into places of work on the other side of the world, carry out jobs ranging from coding to legal services, and so it is opening up western jobs markets as never before. It means a greater talent pool and highly competitive pricing, but does it also mean a race to the bottom for terms of employment and wages? We hear from the CEO of the world's biggest online jobs market space, Stephane Kasriel of Upwork, and from a world expert on the global dynamics of the gig economy, Professor Arun Sundararajan of New York’s Stern Business School. We hear from some young job seekers in Nairobi about what they want from their careers, and from start-up entrepreneur Marieme Jamme, who argues that the gig economy is changing the employment game for us all. Presented by Manuela Saragosa. (Photo: A young woman displays a Blackberry in Jakarta. Credit: Romeo Gacad/ AFP/Getty Images)

In this interview Matt Alder speaks to Stephane Kasriel CEO of Upwork.A recent report published by McKinsey indicates that the digital talent marketplaces driving the “gig economy” could play a significant role in increasing global GDP by $2.7 Trillion by 2025. Upwork is currently the biggest talent marketplace place in the world and I was delighted to get the chance to speak to Stephane Kasriel their CEO for this week’s podcast.The topics we discuss include:    •    The merger of Elance and oDesk that created Upwork    •    How a talent marketplace actually works    •    The huge diversity of skills represented on the platform    •    Remote working and dynamic corporate talent pooling    •    Solving the global digital skills crisis    •    What the future of work will look likeStephane also talks about Upwork’s experience of having an employee base that is 70% freelance and distributed across the worldLinks from this episode:The Future of Work, published by Faster Future Publishing McKinsey Report: Connecting Talent With Opportunity In The Digital Age   Subscibe to this podcast in iTunes

Episode 2 of the future of work podcast explores why organization's should consider building distributed teams, what the benefits of distriuted teams are, and how to build distributed teams. We touch on flexible work, freelanacers, and telecommuting. My guest is Stephane Kasriel, the SVP of product and engineering at Elance-Odesk!   (Music by Ronald Jenkees)