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Globashare.com is an online work platform that facilitates paid freelancing, the buying and selling of digital media and content and crowd funding and sourcing. The platform enables business and individuals to buy and sell digital content and on-demand tasks, skills and knowhow.

Founded in 2020 to facilitate easy exchange of work, offering multiple transaction models. Including selling; products (digital downloads), Fixed price services (gigs), subscription news and media feeds and freelancing by milestone. Users of Globashare can be simultaneously workers or sellers.

Globashare caters to all industries, through what the platform terms as “Share Pages”. Share pages are smart, one page websites where sellers create offerings for sale.

Globashare offers users a G-groups feature, that allows users to form collaborations and sell in groups, where any profits are split between sellers on pre-agreed rules. Globashare’s G-groups are not virtual companies but allow geographically distanced users to form partnerships, assign rules and split payments.

Globashare was designed as an open marketplace (as opposed to a walled-garden) where buyers and sellers are allowed to manage the audiences they create. In direct opposition to marketplace trends at the time of launch,

History
The service was originally conceived by Robert Hammond in 2016. and launched publicly in September 2020. Conceptually the platform was designed to offer individuals the power to buy and sell work, to lower the barriers to access and sell work and to flatten work hierarchies. By offering users, including the unbanked, access to a work-commerce platform, (an escrow system) anyone, anywhere can create work opportunity, through creating their own content for sale, networking on the platform, and forming collaborations

In 2020 Saad Hameed of Game District became a co-founder, also joined by Leila Mroueh. It was Leila Mroueh’s influence that turned the platform’s direction toward a more social enterprise focus. Shifting the platform’s focus toward creating new economies and to develop new commerce models that are more equitable. To create more value in online work work, especially for sellers, and to reverse the trend for “drive to the bottom bidding” offered by existing work platforms.