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Mike Evans, Grubhub // Building A $2bil Company, Going Public & Leaving It All Behind

Creator Lab - interviews with entrepreneurs and startup founders

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The Challenges in Your Marriage

I'm just curious how like your personal marriage might have played into this as well. There was something about just being in charge for that long and having other Oddly being in charge meant other people had a lot of obligation on me. Those little frustrations those little paper cuts they they uh, accumulate and so um It just caused it's a long-term Highway or high friction thing to do to a relationship.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, that's awesome, man And so go ahead So could I ask a quick question because one of the things I had in my notes here was Like during a lot of this. I don't know if this was near the IPO or before or after but there was a near collapse of your marriage Um, and so what just I'm curious like on a personal basis like well first of all when when was that and Uh, I'm curious if that had anything to do with Like how that plays into like taking his trip was it solo? Um, and I know you just said you met friends on the way, but I'm just curious how like your personal Um marriage might have played into this as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1
well, the trip was great for my marriage And my wife was very supportive of it and she was really happy I was going to go decompress and stuff like that the challenges were When my goals and my success were in conflict With other people I was in relationship with him, you know, specifically my wife You know, she had goals related to being an international human rights lawyer Which really probably should have taken us to the hag or jineva and I was running a startup in chicago and so like those two things were in conflict and And I won that conflict, right like we stayed and I did And she talked in her career suffered and it's such a typical story And it's also it's such a gendered story as well and it was really hurtful And so that's what really caused the challenges in the marriage Um, there was like the big ideas and then there's just the day-to-day of when you work 20 hours And you get home or you or you work a long week or you have a big you have an investor call that you have to take when you're Supposed to be having a dinner those those little frustrations those little paper cuts they they uh, accumulate and so um There was something about just being in charge for that long and having other Oddly being in charge meant other people had a lot of obligation like a lot of say and where I spent my schedule I had a lot of obligation on me um It just caused it just caused like a it's a long-term Highway or high friction thing to do to a relationship.

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