Wed March 22, 2017
From PM to CEO of a Billion-Dollar Marketplace
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TOPIC: From PM to CEO of a $Bn-marketplace
How do you go from building products to running a marketplace that creates thousands of jobs and is valued at over $1Bn? Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel shares what he learned along the way, from product manager at Paypal, to SVP of product and then CEO at Upwork. "Getting to product-market fit is only the beginning," he says "From there, there are even bigger hills to climb, like building a sustainable growth engine, maintaining trust in the platform, expanding to new verticals, and securing funding along the way."
About the speaker: As CEO of Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing website, Stephane Kasriel is driving the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. At Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), he built and led a distributed team of more than 300 engineers, product managers and designers located around the world as SVP of Product & Engineering before ascending to be CEO of the company. Stephane applies his learnings to help people build their own teams so that they can overcome talent gaps, create more job opportunities, and give rise to a flexible work future. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in Computer Science and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
AGENDA
6.50pm: doors open (note: doors close at 7.45pm)
7.30pm: welcome & introductions
7.35pm: talk by Stephane Kasriel
8.20pm: shoutouts
8.25pm: networking & fun
9pm: event ends
PERKS & HAPPINESS
Free beer & yummy pizzas! We also share discounts and freebies in our newsletter.
Products That Count is a non-profit organization. If for any reason you can't make it to our event, or didn't like it, email us and we'll be happy to refund your money. Please try to do it early so that someone on the waitlist can take your spot.
Starting March 2017, our host Yelp has asked that we close the RSVP list 48 hours prior to the event date, for security reasons. Make sure to get your ticket before that!
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TOPIC: From PM to CEO of a $Bn-marketplace
How do you go from building products to running a marketplace that creates thousands of jobs and is valued at over $1Bn? Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel shares what he learned along the way, from product manager at Paypal, to SVP of product and then CEO at Upwork. "Getting to product-market fit is only the beginning," he says "From there, there are even bigger hills to climb, like building a sustainable growth engine, maintaining trust in the platform, expanding to new verticals, and securing funding along the way."
About the speaker: As CEO of Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing website, Stephane Kasriel is driving the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. At Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), he built and led a distributed team of more than 300 engineers, product managers and designers located around the world as SVP of Product & Engineering before ascending to be CEO of the company. Stephane applies his learnings to help people build their own teams so that they can overcome talent gaps, create more job opportunities, and give rise to a flexible work future. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in Computer Science and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
AGENDA
6.50pm: doors open (note: doors close at 7.45pm)
7.30pm: welcome & introductions
7.35pm: talk by Stephane Kasriel
8.20pm: shoutouts
8.25pm: networking & fun
9pm: event ends
PERKS & HAPPINESS
Free beer & yummy pizzas! We also share discounts and freebies in our newsletter.
Products That Count is a non-profit organization. If for any reason you can't make it to our event, or didn't like it, email us and we'll be happy to refund your money. Please try to do it early so that someone on the waitlist can take your spot.
Starting March 2017, our host Yelp has asked that we close the RSVP list 48 hours prior to the event date, for security reasons. Make sure to get your ticket before that!
Products That Count is a community of product managers and innovators. If you want to be the first to hear about new programs, sign up for our newsletter at productsthatcount.com.
TOPIC: From PM to CEO of a $Bn-marketplace
How do you go from building products to running a marketplace that creates thousands of jobs and is valued at over $1Bn? Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel shares what he learned along the way, from product manager at Paypal, to SVP of product and then CEO at Upwork. "Getting to product-market fit is only the beginning," he says "From there, there are even bigger hills to climb, like building a sustainable growth engine, maintaining trust in the platform, expanding to new verticals, and securing funding along the way."
About the speaker: As CEO of Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing website, Stephane Kasriel is driving the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. At Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), he built and led a distributed team of more than 300 engineers, product managers and designers located around the world as SVP of Product & Engineering before ascending to be CEO of the company. Stephane applies his learnings to help people build their own teams so that they can overcome talent gaps, create more job opportunities, and give rise to a flexible work future. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in Computer Science and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
AGENDA
6.50pm: doors open (note: doors close at 7.45pm)
7.30pm: welcome & introductions
7.35pm: talk by Stephane Kasriel
8.20pm: shoutouts
8.25pm: networking & fun
9pm: event ends
PERKS & HAPPINESS
Free beer & yummy pizzas! We also share discounts and freebies in our newsletter.
Products That Count is a non-profit organization. If for any reason you can't make it to our event, or didn't like it, email us and we'll be happy to refund your money. Please try to do it early so that someone on the waitlist can take your spot.
Starting March 2017, our host Yelp has asked that we close the RSVP list 48 hours prior to the event date, for security reasons. Make sure to get your ticket before that!
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TOPIC: From PM to CEO of a $Bn-marketplace
How do you go from building products to running a marketplace that creates thousands of jobs and is valued at over $1Bn? Upwork CEO Stephane Kasriel shares what he learned along the way, from product manager at Paypal, to SVP of product and then CEO at Upwork. "Getting to product-market fit is only the beginning," he says "From there, there are even bigger hills to climb, like building a sustainable growth engine, maintaining trust in the platform, expanding to new verticals, and securing funding along the way."
About the speaker: As CEO of Upwork, the world’s largest freelancing website, Stephane Kasriel is driving the company’s vision of connecting businesses with talent faster than ever. At Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk), he built and led a distributed team of more than 300 engineers, product managers and designers located around the world as SVP of Product & Engineering before ascending to be CEO of the company. Stephane applies his learnings to help people build their own teams so that they can overcome talent gaps, create more job opportunities, and give rise to a flexible work future. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, Master’s from Stanford in Computer Science and a BS from Ecole Polytechnique in France.
AGENDA
6.50pm: doors open (note: doors close at 7.45pm)
7.30pm: welcome & introductions
7.35pm: talk by Stephane Kasriel
8.20pm: shoutouts
8.25pm: networking & fun
9pm: event ends
PERKS & HAPPINESS
Free beer & yummy pizzas! We also share discounts and freebies in our newsletter.
Products That Count is a non-profit organization. If for any reason you can't make it to our event, or didn't like it, email us and we'll be happy to refund your money. Please try to do it early so that someone on the waitlist can take your spot.
Starting March 2017, our host Yelp has asked that we close the RSVP list 48 hours prior to the event date, for security reasons. Make sure to get your ticket before that!
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