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Jonathan Swanson on Building a Unicorn and Delegating 90% of Your Life

Founder's Journal

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How Did Thumbtack Come to Be?

Jesse Jackson grew up in the Midwest like you Jesse both my parents grew up on farms. I went to work at the White House, which was cool life experience got to work in the West Wing And have some pretty fun life experiences But I knew I didn't want to be politics forever because politics is a circus and really just motivated to do something big. So with a couple friends we started brainstorming ideas so every Sunday we got together and we would brainstorm startups to start. Most our ideas were dumb or idiotic or didn't go Do you remember any of those early ideas that you didn't push forward with? Oh, we had lots of them. One that we started moving forward with

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