Hi Lena,
I think many Top Rated and old freelancers like me are disappointed by not getting featured in the ad campaign. Actually, it wasn't a small move rather it's a historical moment that upwork has transitioned from private to a public which gave this ad campaign a more importance than usual ads campaign. If there could be any criteria to get featured and if we fail to pass that then we would have understand it but randomly selecting people doesn't make any sense and lots of disappointment
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I don't know how upwork will care about our disappointment but hope in coming days they may send some greetings/certificates or something else to all old and Top rated freelancer which will motivate them to keep doing good work.
Thanks,
Vinod
I am just another top rated 
It's pretty much disappointing for me to see the freelancers in the campaign who might done 20-30 jobs as compared to freelancers who have been working here from the nearly decade (Thousands of earnings and hundreds of reviews/jobs).
I think it's completely un-justice to do that, there should be a proper mechanism to select a freelancer for these kinds of campaigns, otherwise, you're de-motivating your "Actual" top rated freelancers. 
@Daniyal A wrote:It's pretty much disappointing for me to see the freelancers in the campaign who might done 20-30 jobs as compared to freelancers who have been working here from the nearly decade (Thousands of earnings and hundreds of reviews/jobs).
I think it's completely un-justice to do that, there should be a proper mechanism to select a freelancer for these kinds of campaigns, otherwise, you're de-motivating your "Actual" top rated freelancers.
Why? Do you really think anyone would notice and remember any on the heads spinning on the billboard and then log in Upwork to hire them?
Have you seen the videos?
This campaign was an advertisement for Upwork as a platform, not for the people on the billboard.
The share price opened at USD10 per share and now it is valued at USD19-21 per share. The debt to equity ratio is that Upwork has more debt to equity (which makes sense before they were listed they probably took out loans to fund for their assest and so on).
There is no financial statements yet as this is a newly listed company. I will probably be buying 5 shares (around USD100). Now all I gotta do is to find a client to pay me USD300 haha and I can cover the cost and possibly buy more shares.
I really think it is a good company. (been here from Elance and I have heard the partnership was a great thing) And 3 years later they are listed. I am so proud to be an Upworker! 
