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Mike Evans, Grubhub // Building A $2bil Company, Going Public & Leaving It All Behind

Nov 7, 2022

01:17:48

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Episode notes

The Origins of Crop Up: From Delivery Guide Hobby to Business

01:09

Dollar value for time

00:38

From sinical to first iPhone app

02:13

Investors not believing in full time employees

00:41

Introduction

2min

How Grubhub Got Started

2min

Is There a Better Model for Trying to Find a Business?

2min

The Seven Deadly Sins

2min

Are You a Co-Founder?

2min

Is There a Negativity?

4min

Groupon

3min

The School Debt One, Is It a Bad Idea?

2min

How Did It Start Working?

2min

10.

How Do You Get Paid for Your Time?

5min

11.

Do You Have a Repetition Strategy That Will Change Your Life?

5min

12.

Was It Before Blackberry Came Out?

4min

13.

Is This a New Business Model?

2min

14.

Just Works Makes It Easier to Start Run and Scale Your Business

2min

15.

What's the Biggest Growth Moment?

3min

16.

What Happened With Seamless?

3min

17.

The Ipl and Teamless Versus Grub Hub

2min

18.

Venture Capital - Is That a Good Exit?

5min

19.

How Do You Define Success?

3min

20.

The Greatest Truth in Entrepreneurship Is Money

5min

21.

What's the Essence of the Podcast?

3min

22.

Is There a Six Month Lock Up After an IPO?

2min

23.

The Bike Trip

2min

24.

The Golden Handcuffs

1min

25.

Is It Like a Jeff Basil Sting?

2min

26.

The Big Bike Trip

2min

27.

The Challenges in Your Marriage

2min

28.

How Did You Start Fixer?

2min

29.

The Story of Fixer and It's All Connected Like I've No

2min

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:25) - Start Of Interview
(00:01:56) - How Grubhub Started
(00:03:26) - Software Developer to Starting Grubhub & Fixer
(00:05:13) - Seven Deadly Sins
(00:06:48) - Idea To Reality
(00:08:45) - The Evolution
(00:13:26) - Knowing When To Go Full Time
(00:22:00) - Prioritizing & Managing Time
(00:25:25) - Repeat Purchases
(00:26:51) - iPhone & The App Store
(00:31:03) - Creating A New Business Model
(00:34:01) - Phone is the Remote Control Of Your Life
(00:36:30) - Sponsor: Justworks
(00:37:37) - Full-time Employees vs Contractors
(00:40:16) - Growth Moments
(00:42:35) - Seamless & Grubhub Merger & Exit
(00:52:30) - Bilal's Definition Of Success
(00:59:10) - Difference Between A Grump & An Entrepreneur
(01:04:38) - Leaving It All Behind
(01:09:27) - The Big Bike Trip

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