The man with millions of jobs that need doing

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Image copyright Freelancer Image caption Site users submit photos from around the world - this one is from Maccu Pichu in Peru"People used the product but everything was wrong with how we sold it," he says. `Wrong fit`In 2006 Mr Barrie had walked out of his first start-up - a Sydney-based firm called Sensory Networks that made computer chips for security equipment. Faced with that, Mr Barrie decided to outsource the data entry side of things to local kids. Image copyright Freelancer Image caption Freelancer had humble beginningsAfter a few months of "decompressing", Mr Barrie was beginning to think about his next move when the 2007 global financial crisis swept in. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Matt Barrie says he is a workaholic"The average project [on Freelancer] pays A$200.