In the summer of 2022, I was 15 years deep building fast-growing companies, and at a juncture. I knew what it was to work full-time for one company, but around me, my smartest friends were making new choices: starting internet businesses, writing online, building courses, taking advisory roles. More income, more impact, and somehow more free time. I was curious.
So I did a seemingly stupid thing and quit the best-paying job I ever had to first take a break, and then start mucking around on the internet, trying to work for myself.
A few months in, I had lunch with a founder friend in San Francisco, got to talking about her team's problems, and agreed to jump in for 10 hours a week. The work scratched the intellectual itch and gave me my time back. I was hooked.
My engineering and marketing friends already had a word for this: "freelancers." But that didn't fit the business-facing work I did. I wasn't a "consultant," and "gig worker" wasn't right either. The internet was full of resources for them, but no one was helping the operators. And the founders I worked with kept asking me the same thing: "Who else do you know?"
Turns out what I wanted had a name. Aha! A fractional worker, building a portfolio career. And the more I told my smartest operations friends about it, the more I realized they wanted the same thing. And so HG was born.
HG is the home I wish I had when I got started: the helper for hiring managers who need experienced operators without a full-time role, and the lead gen for operators who want to build portfolio careers of their own.
I hope to talk soon!