In 2002,cofounder Odysseas Tsatalos, an engineering student from Greece, was trying to put together a Silicon Valley company and he wanted to collaborate with his friend and colleague, Cofounder Stratis Karamanlakis, another engineer. Stratis lived in Greece and Odysseas lived in Silicon Valley. That was problem. So they created a program that allowed them to work together while separated by oceans. This was the origin of oDesk.Over four million freelance workers with nearly three thousand different skills have posted with oDesk. It's one of the largest workplaces on the internet, if not the world. This fine company has an impressive team of leaders. Gary Swart, the CEO, is a man who's spoken on case studies on oDesk at the Harvard Business School,