Unplugged: How to Hack a Billion Dollars

Unplugged: How to Hack a Billion Dollars
with Matt Barrie, CEO & Chairman, Freelancer.com

On January 13th, attend an open mic meetup with Matt Barrie, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Freelancer.com, and learn his secrets of how to hack a billion dollars.

An award-winning speaker, writer and influencer, Barrie founded Freelancer.com in 2009, and in 2013 Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN) opened at $1.03 billion US on the Australian Securities Exchange. During Unplugged: How to Hack a Billion Dollars, Matt will answer your questions about hypergrowth and share his growth hacking strategies so that you can apply them to your own company.

Your ticket includes pizza and 2 drink tickets.

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Matt Barrie, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
BE (Hons I) BSc (Hons I) GDipAppFin MAppFin MSEE (Stanford) GAICD SEP FIEAust

Matt Barrie is an award winning entrepreneur, technologist and lecturer, having won numerous awards including being named the inaugural BRW Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011. Matt was previously founder and CEO of Sensory Networks Inc., a vendor of high performance network security processors, which Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) announced in 2013 it was acquiring. Matt is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney, where for the last 12 years he has taught Cryptography, and from 2010, Technology Entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of over 20 US patent applications.

Matt is a prolific speaker and has spoken at, or been featured in; the Summit Series, the New York Times, Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, The Atlantic, Switzer, BRW and The Economist. In 2012, he was selected out of a field of 600 presenters to be one of 21 featured speakers at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas (SXSW), one of the world‘s largest interactive, music, film and technology festivals.

Matt is regularly invited to speak at the world‘s leading entrepreneurship, internet and business conferences/forums. He is also one of the worldwide Linkedin Influencers, along with Richard Branson, Barack Obama and Deepak Chopra, where he writes on the topics of entrepreneurship and technology.

Matt's awards and recognition include:

• State Pearcey Award for contibutions to the IT&T industry, 2006
• Alumnus of the Year for the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Sydney, 2010
• SmartCompany’s 11 Most Influential Australians in IT, 2011
• EY Entrepreneur of the Year, 2011
• Top 100 most influential engineers, Engineers Australia, 2012
• Man of Influence, Men’s Style Magazine, 2012
• SmartCompany’s Top 10 Australian Entrepreneurs to Watch, 2013
• Blackberry Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, 2013
• Top 100 most influential engineers, Engineers Australia, 2013

About Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is the world's largest freelancing, outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and projects. We connect over 13,908,780 employers and freelancers globally from over 247 countries, regions and territories. Through our marketplace, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software development, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering, the sciences, sales and marketing, accounting and legal services.

Freelancer Limited is trading on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN