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Masters of Scale

Hayden Brown

CEO

Upwork

Hayden Brown is President and CEO of Upwork, the marketplace that connects millions of independent professionals with businesses from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Under her leadership, Upwork has grown into a $750M+ revenue public company and transformed into an AI-native platform with $4 billion in annual client spend. Before becoming CEO in 2020, Hayden led Upwork’s product and marketing organizations, scaling the company from a $10M startup to a publicly traded marketplace.

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How leaders thrive in chaos
Life With Machines’s Baratunde Thurston
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
Autodesk’s Dara Treseder
Watch Duty’s John Mills
Warp Sciences’ DJ Patil
Spicewell’s Raina Kumra Gardiner
Arkenstone’s William Treseder
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Life With Machines’s Baratunde Thurston
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
Autodesk’s Dara Treseder
Watch Duty’s John Mills
Warp Sciences’ DJ Patil
Spicewell’s Raina Kumra Gardiner
Arkenstone’s William Treseder
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What the jobs report isn't telling you
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
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Prioritize principles in crisis
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
General Catalyst’s Ken Frazier
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General Catalyst’s Ken Frazier
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Business withdraws from Russia, strife at Netflix, Musk vs Twitter, the business world’s role in democracy, crypto’s future & more
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Redesigning work in a crisis
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
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