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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Thumbtack comes up
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.