I'm curious about process for, I think that's one of the things that's hardest when you start working on your own thing is recognizing that you're going to do 10 things and seven of them aren't going to work. How did you all think about focusing and testing and like, you've told me about things that worked that are clearly like not the first ideas that came to mind. Yeah. So, you know, I don't think there was any magic there other than it was kind of broad ideation of say, what are all the different ways we can acquire servers pros? We can email, we can do advertising, we can doing sales, we could do flyers, which
Today we chat with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset. We cover a ton of ground - starting with the Sunday idea club that led to Thumbtack, how to scale a marketplace, and how to choose ideas you'd happily spent a decade on. Next, we jump into the science of delegation - the idea at the core of Athena. Jonathan talks through how to delegate to an EA, when to start with one, a system of delegation that creates asymmetric upside and what type of founders should consider it.