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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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From sinical to first iPhone app

In a board meeting, an investor suggested using Blackberries and Palm Trios for food ordering, but the speaker thought it was too clunky. Then Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, prompting the team to get iPhones and jailbreak them to create apps before the app store launched. The result was one of the first 100 apps with 10,000 restaurants signed up, fueling the company's rapid growth.

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