The internet has created opportunities to leverage software to create wealth, but it has also created opportunities for everyday people to leverage labor to create wealth.
The internet allows us to connect with smart and skilled people all over the world. It makes borders irrelevant as you can contract people in almost any countries.
In many low-opportunity countries, there are smart, skilled, connected, english-speakers. They don’t have any meatspace opportunities, so they are inexpensive to hire, but because they can work online they have a large potential for value creation.
Services like Upwork and Fiverr help everyday people in these countries find good opportunities, but the short-term nature of the gigs limits the skills they can learn and the value they can create.
The real opportunity lies in being able to discover and nurture talent from a low-opportunity country over the long-term. If you can find the way to bridge that gap, it will give you and your business great leverage for creating wealth.
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