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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Thumbtack comes up
20Product: Is the Design Phase Dead in a World of AI | Has Claude Code Crushed Anthropic Already | What Roles of a PM Are Less and More Important with AI | How the Best Product Leaders Tell Stories with Noam Lovinsky, CPO @ Superhuman
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Prior to Superhuman, Nom was a Senior Director of Product Management at Facebook, and in his earlier years, he was a CPO at Thumbtack,
- ▶ 37:39 Harry Stebbings Leaders over the years, as we said, from YouTube to Google to Meta to Thumbtack, you can't choose Shashir, by the way.
20Product: Why Most CPOs are Bad | Why You Do Not Need PMs in a World of AI | Why the Design Stage is Dead and How to Use Vibe Coding to Replace It | The Three Roles All Founders End Up Firing on Repeat with Jason James @ Tezi
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings He was the head of product and design at Thumbtack.
- ▶ 1:52 Harry Stebbings With, you've been at some of the most incredible organizations from your Instacart to your thumbtacks.
- ▶ 11:50 Harry Stebbings If we discuss Thumbtack, another incredible company, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:34 Jason James At Thumbtack, you know, conventional wisdom is like remove friction from onboarding, make it easier, faster, whatever.
- ▶ 42:21 Harry Stebbings Which company had a better culture, Instacart or Thumbtack? 2 times in the scene
Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:05 Kieran Flanagan So if you're like an, if you're an Airbnb, a Fiverr, a Thumbtack, where you're a large, you have, your product is basically your entire go-to-market, right?
Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
- ▶ 6:10 Casey Winters I ended up working with, you know, lots of different companies, you know, companies like Canva, Eventbrite, Tinder, Thumbtack, on various different scaling problems.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Firm, Opendoor, Postmates, Niantic, and Thumbtack, to name a few.
20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- ▶ 9:48 Harry Stebbings But then I had like Marco Thumbtack on the show who said that actually you can be a consultant coming out of Bain and do a SWOT analysis and come up with an idea that maybe doesn't have such founder market fit.
20VC: NEA Partner, Dayna Grayson on Sourcing, Picking, Winning, Gut vs Data in Investment Decision-Making & The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Expectations of Venture
- ▶ 12:47 Harry Stebbings But then there's also incredibly successful founders like Marco Thumbtack who say that maybe isn't so prominent and you don't need to have like an idea to get started, so to speak.
20VC: Superhuman's Rahul Vohra on How To Measure Product Market Fit, How To Construct A Process To Increase It & How To Implement A Strong Feedback and Reporting Cycle To Sustain It
- ▶ 13:52 Rahul Vohra Uh, and this was created by Julie Supan, who led early marketing at Dropbox, Airbnb, Thumbtack, and lots of other great companies.
20VC: Behind The Scenes of a $Bn IPO Process, What Startups Can Learn From Teddy Roosevelt's "Five Minute Meetings" and What John Lennon Teaches Founders About Storytelling with Howard Lerman, Founder & CEO @ Yext
- ▶ 4:34 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, I have Mark Thumbtack on the show recently, and he said that actually, you can take a very consultative approach to starting a company, come up with graphs, market maps, and really kind of isolate potential markets into exciting…
20VC: GOAT's Eddy Lu on Pivoting From Failing Social Dining App To The World's Largest Sneaker Marketplace, How The Best Founders Pick Their Investors & Why It Is Better To Be Hated than Unknown
- ▶ 7:44 Harry Stebbings I actually have Marco from Thumbtack and Adrian Ayun on the show from Forward Research.
20VC: The Core Lessons From Building a 150 Startup Angel Portfolio, Why Founders Who Angel Invest Have Such Strong Advantages and Why The Lean Startup Makes Less and Less Sense Today with Adrian Aoun, Founder & CEO @ Forward
- ▶ 8:04 Harry Stebbings Speaking of that kind of idea creation process and kind of identifying that problem, we had Marco Thumbtack on the show recently who said that too much criticism is placed on founders who strategically think about the right company to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:19 Harry Stebbings Totally out there question, but one that I spoke excessively with about Marco in terms of his building the brand with Thumbtack, and you're mentioning there of kind of going D to C almost with Ford. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Marco is the founder and CEO at Thumbtack, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:49 Harry Stebbings But enough from me, so without further ado, I'm thrilled to hand over to Marco Zappacosta, founder and CEO at Thumbtack.
- ▶ 3:14 Harry Stebbings So tell me, how did you make your way into startups, and what's the founding story for Thumbtack in a very succinct three to four minutes?
- ▶ 8:43 Marco Zappacosta Thumbtack over the last year and change has really evolved the product and the platform quite a bit, and that's something that the board had to be super bought in on, and the executive team, obviously the whole company, but it's not about… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:28 Marco Zappacosta Fundraising can only be evaluated in light of the objective that the company is trying to achieve. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:53 Marco Zappacosta But for the time being, SumTAC is already nationwide.
- ▶ 20:47 Marco Zappacosta Our pros are earning 72 dollars an hour and are able to differentiate themselves on more than just price. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:54 Harry Stebbings What's the single best piece of advice given to you in the incredible thumbtack journey? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say again a massive thank you to Michelle Tandler at Thumbtack Now for the intro to Marco, without which the episode would not have been possible, and we'd love to see you behind the scenes here at the 20 Minute VC.
20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings As he says, he's got lucky seven times and counting, with a portfolio that includes the likes of Uber, Thumbtack, Evernote, and Tumblr, just to name a few of the incredible companies in his portfolio.
- ▶ 5:03 Jason Calacanis But anyway, putting that aside, I thought when I got an offer, somebody had read a story in the Wall Street Journal about my Uber investment, my thumbtack investment in the Sequoia Scouts program, and they said, you know, would you write a…
- ▶ 20:56 Jason Calacanis Because if you ask somebody like Travis, why are you doing this, this being Uber, or what are you working on to Marco at Thumbtack, they're going to show a level of enthusiasm that
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings As one of the key individuals in the Valley, he's invested in over a hundred startups, including the likes of Twitter, Postmates, Uber, Yammer, and Thumbtack, just to name a few of his incredible portfolio companies.
20VC: Why Spray & Pray Investing Is Wrong, Why Data-Informed VC Beats Data Driven VC & What To Look For When Investing In A Marketplace with Josh Breinlinger, Managing Director @ Jackson Square Ventures
- ▶ 15:43 Josh Breinlinger Thumbtack has done that in local services, and the horizontal approach is, is much better in those cases.
- ▶ 16:57 Harry Stebbings Are there any ways to prevent disintermediation of such sorts with, with the likes of Thumbtack providing the services they do?
20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
Jason Calacanis: The World's Greatest Angel Investor
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings He's one of the greatest angel investors in the world with over 60 angel investments, including the likes of Uber and Thumbtack, just to name a few.
- ▶ 15:07 Jason Calacanis I did, I was the second investor in Thumbtack after Marco's parents, and then roll off, I brought him 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:55 Jason Calacanis Um, you know, Thumbtack and Uber,