How Thumbtack Was Built With a Huge Offshore Workforce

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Thumbtack was built with a huge offshore workforce. The company is now getting ready to go public. "It feels like we now have the opportunity to truly build an Amazon of services and took us a lot longer than I think we expected"

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.