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A Google search penalty once wiped out Thumbtack's web traffic and revenue
“At Thumbtack, there was a moment, you may remember this, a decade ago, where I woke up, and I had a message from someone on our team in the Philippines, and it said, Thumbtack does not exist on the internet. I was like, what? And I went to Google, you type in …”
Jonathan Swanson Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 32:27 The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
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Thumbtack launched with three non-technical co-founders and one technical co-founder
“I'd say, you know, one of the biggest, I don't know if I called a mistake at Thumbtack because I love my founders, but it's something I wouldn't recommend others do, is we had four co-founders, and one was technical, he left after like two years, and then the …”
Jonathan Swanson Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 35:04 The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.
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