In the early days, we had a team of 1000 people working in the Philippines. They helped us kind of scale up the marketplace. And it really wouldn't have been possible with our like financing, right? We just didn't have the money to hire expensive engineers from Google at first.
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.