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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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What Happened With Seamless?

When I first moved in 2012 or 13 I used seamless like from day one and it was like my go-to delivery app. So what happened with seamless specifically? Yeah, talk a little bit about this in the book But the but so we first we acquired campus food that allowed us to get from 50 cities into 350 And then and then we did a merger with seamless. We were down to hours away from filing to go public like hours. It would have made the price of the public stock terrible Because simply because the investment bankers were like well who's grub hub? I know seamless. They had basically blocked us from a great IPO by being in Manhattan.

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