Fixer Founder and former GrubHub Co-Founder Mike Evans takes us through his goal of rejuvenating the trade education system in America, building his business as a lever for social change by empowering employees and what he learned about purpose in his time at GrubHub. Mike talks about the issues of the ‘gig economy’ and why Fixer is committed to training employees to be full-time handy people. Fixer started as a few of Mike’s friends getting paid to do jobs for other friends and has grown into an online network for home repair across five major U.S. markets. To close out, Aaron and Mike have a valuable conversation about the people he met and the diners he stopped in along his 2014 cross-country bike trip from Virginia to Oregon. Tune in to hear about why rebuilding the trades economy has become Mike’s passion and learn more at fixer.com.

Production Credits: Aaron Kwittken, Haley Sacotte, Danny Ziolkowski, Maria Bayas, Michael Grubbs, Anna Lamm and Mathew Passy

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