Upwork on The Lawfare Podcast

Hey folks, Ben Wittes here, and I want to talk to you about Upwork. When I started Lawfare and we were trying to scale it up, we had all kinds of needs for specialized people to do temporary work of one sort or another: building a website, payroll, all kinds of things that we didn't know how to do because we know how to write about national security law. Upwork did not exist at the time, but boy, scaling a business takes the right expertise at the right time, and Upwork helps growing teams quickly bring in specialized freelancers so you can move faster and take the business to the next level. This would have been super helpful to me 15 years ago. Upwork is a one-stop platform to find, hire, and pay expert freelancers across web and software development, data and analytics, marketing, business operations, and more. It helps you grow your business by giving you fast access to all kinds of specialized talent across 125 categories. So you can fill skill gaps, launch projects faster, and scale support up or down without committing to full-time headcount. So what can you do with it? You can browse profiles of possible hires. You can review past work. You can get help scoping the role you want to hire for, so you can move with confidence and you can get started quickly. With the Business Plus plan, you can access the top 1% of talent on Upwork, and with AI-powered shortlisting, you'll get matched to the right freelancer in less than six hours. There's no...