436: Why It’s OK to Quit with GrubHub Founder Mike Evans
The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan
The Beginnings of GrubHub
I just really wanted like a better way to order pizza and just to find the restaurants that delivered to my address in downtown Chicago. And so I wrote as a hobby, I made a website which showed up on all the search engines. So at some point I was like, Oh, I think I got something here. Like maybe I, maybe this could be like a business. Maybe I could sell advertising or something to restaurants. But then it turned on its head when we started charging on a per-order basis and, and set up online ordering. That's when it really accelerated instead of just selling advertising packages.
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