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Marco Zappacosta, CEO of Thumbtack, shares his 16-year journey building a $3.2B company. Discover insights on long-term vision, remote work strategies, and the power of persistence in revolutionizing the home services industry. Learn how Thumbtack navigated challenges to become a leading digital marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Show, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky speaks to Marco Zappacosta, CEO of Thumbtack, who talks about how remote-first requires you to be more deliberate.You can learn about Thumbtack at https://www.thumbtack.com/

This episode centers on Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a startup that runs a marketplace for home services and beyond. Zappacosta talked about his unusual path to entrepreneurship which included almost getting a degree in neuroscience before deciding to start a company without having an existing idea. He also talked about growing Thumbtack through multiple market cycles and his mindset around leadership.Found posts every Friday. Subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts to be alerted when new episodes drop. Check out the other TechCrunch podcasts: Equity, The TechCrunch Podcast and Chain Reaction.Subscribe to Found to hear more stories from founders each

Today we are featuring Marco Zappacosta, co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. Thumbtack is a modern home management platform that helps homeowners stay up to date on routine maintenance while also connecting them with local service providers who can support with home care. The company was recently acknowledged as one of Fortune's Best Places to Work in Tech and overall for Small/Medium Companies.Marco has been recognized on Forbes' 30 Under 30 and has been featured in stories in the New York Times, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.In this episode, Catherine and Marco talk about getting Thumbtack off the ground, determining what investors are looking for, moments of great progress amongst great challenges, transitioning to a fully remote workplace, identifying and assessing talent, and much more.Topics Include: - Timing around raising capital- Prioritizing healthy & profitable growth- Driving liquidity in the marketplace- Reaching your first customers- Systematizing availability- Making radical adjustments to ensure viability during COVID-19- Investor climate change- Creating a more equitable workplace through remote work- Scaling effectively in a virtual context- Questions for interviewing candidates- And other topics…Marco Zappacosta is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, the technology leader building the modern home management platform. Thumbtack empowers homeowners to instantly book skilled professionals and supports hundreds of thousands of small businesses to grow sustainably. The company has raised more than $500 million and was recently acknowledged as one of Fortune's Best Places to Work in Tech and overall for Small/Medium Companies. Marco has been recognized on Forbes' 30 Under 30 and has been featured in stories in the New York Times, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, and CNBC.

Click on www.imperfectleaders.com for free weekly episodes delivered to your inbox and the opportunity to join live discussions with top leaders. Thumbtack - a marketplace for professionals who can take care of your home - is a gem in the portfolio of Sequoia Capital, the legendary venture capital investors. Through his vulnerability and thoughtfulness, Thumbtack CEO, Marco Zappacosta, has institutionalized a culture of leadership development and continuous improvement. In this podcast he asserts that life can be cruel - a leader's biggest strength can often be their biggest weakness. Just like one of our other podcast guests, Brad Smith, Board Chair at Intuit and Nordstrom, Zappacosta is completely transparent and shares his performance review with his entire company. To proactively keep things running smoothly, Zappacosta ensures rising star leaders receive plenty of coaching, mentorship, and developmental opportunities. It's no wonder that pros earn billions on Thumbtack, delighting customers across the country.. Soon the phrase, "Just Thumbtack It" will be an action verb synonymous for taking care of your home. To receive free podcast episodes each week, subscribe at www.imperfectleaders.com

Thumbtack - a marketplace for professionals who can take care of  your home - is a gem in the portfolio of Sequoia Capital, the legendary venture capital investors.   Through his vulnerability and thoughtfulness, Thumbtack CEO, Marco Zappacosta, has institutionalized a culture of leadership development and continuous improvement. In this podcast he asserts that life can be cruel - a leader's biggest strength can often be their biggest weakness. Just like one of our other podcast guests, Brad Smith, Board Chair at Intuit and Nordstrom, Zappacosta is completely transparent and shares his performance review with his entire company. To proactively keep things running smoothly, Zappacosta ensures rising star leaders receive plenty of coaching, mentorship, and developmental opportunities. It's no wonder that pros earn billions on Thumbtack, delighting customers across the country.. Soon the phrase, "Just Thumbtack It" will be an action verb synonymous for taking care of your home. To receive free podcast episodes each week, subscribe at www.imperfectleaders.com

Marco Zappacosta's only professional job has been the cofounder and CEO of Thumbtack. Marco started the home services matchmaking website straight out of university with a dream to find a better solution of hiring a plumber. Since 2009, Thumbtack has raised half a billion dollars in funding and gone from 2 to 1,000 employees. But Thumbtack's success came from years of struggle to discover their perfect market fit.    Listen to Nathan and Marco discuss:  Thumbtack's first users on both sides of the marketplace Enticing pros by creating stylized Craiglist ads The importance of telling the dream and data to investors Why investors are thinking about other investors Why getting a meeting is the easy part of fundraising  The difference between bootstrapped and VC businesses  Seeing values as the best version of your company  Creating "libraries" for their fully-remote workplace And much more VC and remote work advice…     Who do you want to see next on the podcast? Comment and let us know! And don't forget to leave us a 5-star review if you loved this episode.   Wait, there's more… If you enjoy the Foundr podcast, check out our free trainings. Get exclusive, actionable advice from some of the world's best entrepreneurs.    For more Foundr content, follow us on your favorite platform:  Foundr.com Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Magazine

The Practical Guide to building an online marketplace was written by Christóbal Gracia and Juho Makkonen. All articles are available in Marketplace Academy and as a book, Lean Marketplace. This episode concludes the guide. Stay tuned for more marketplace content!Article available at: How to turn your marketplace into a community, Christóbal GraciaSources and further reading:  PaulCamper's community-building playbook for marketplaces, Marketplace Academy  Two-sided Podcast, Sharetribe  Distribution of active Etsy buyers from 2011 to 2018, by purchase frequency, Statista  How to build trust in your marketplace, Marketplace Academy  How to find the best marketplace growth strategies, Marketplace Academy  Brian Rothenberg: Driving growth via buyer/seller overlap, Marketplace Academy  Three reasons why marketplaces fail (and how not to), Marketplace Academy  The Fascinating Psychology Behind the Yelp Elite Program, CMX  Airbnb: Belonging, Airbnb blog Etsy Embraces Mass-Manufacturing, Wired  The Power Of Online Communities, Neil Perkin  Airbnb Founder Eats His Own Dogfood, Goes 'Homeless' For Months, Tech Crunch  Brick by Brick: A free guide to building awesome communities, Sacha Greif  How Reddit Got Huge: Tons of Fake Accounts, Vice  Video: Going for Global: 5 Guerrilla Tactics When the Slick Stuff Fails, 500 Global  Video: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta & Requested's Sonny Mayugba share super-growth tactics, This Week in Startups  Read more about marketplaces at www.sharetribe.com/academy/.Looking to build a marketplace of your own? Visit www.sharetribe.com!

Marco Zappacosta is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a technology leader building the all-in-one home care platform helping customers find and hire skilled professionals. Thumbtack empowers homeowners to instantly book the right skilled professionals and supports hundreds of thousands of small businesses to grow sustainably. The company has raised more than $500 million and Marco has been recognized on Forbes' 30 Under 30.

Join us in The BreakLine Arena for a fascinating conversation with Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack.Recognized on Forbes' 2015 30 under 30 list, Marco and Thumbtack have been featured in media outlets including The New York Times, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal and CNBC and were recently acknowledged as one of GlassDoor's Best Places to Work and Highest Rated CEOs lists.Marco co-founded Thumbtack after graduating from Columbia University, where he majored in Political Science. He and his family live in San Francisco. His favorite personal Thumbtack project was hosting a Halloween party that included a Thumbtack bartender, magician, and photographer.If you like what you've heard please like, subscribe, or rate The BreakLine Arena on your preferred streaming platform! We would also love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or recommendations on the content we are creating. Feel free to reach out to us at questions@break-line.com.To learn more about BreakLine Education visit us at breakline.org.

Our guest this week is Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a billion dollar company that helps people find skilled pros in their area for various jobs. Actually both of Marco's parents were entrepreneurs and they created the Logitech brand. But Marco didn't start out thinking he would follow in their footsteps to become an entrepreneur. Where did the idea of Thumbtack come from When Marco first started, he didn't have a fully realized idea. He knew he wanted to solve a problem and that's where it began. The idea came to him and his co-founder when they realized that at any given moment very busy homeowners had big to-do lists with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of jobs they wanted to get done. And on the flip side there are pros who have gaps in their calendars and free time to fill. But the two parties had a hard time finding each other, it was a matchmaking problem. “That was the inspiration, like literally the opportunity, the brokenness of the world, and realizing that if we got this right, yeah, you make homeowners' lives much richer and easier and better, which feels great. But for pros, you increase the return on their human capital. And it feels as fundamental as progress and change can be. So having that sort of desire and vision from the get go, I think, helped pull us through a lot of moments where we didn't know exactly how to do it, or what to do, or, you know, weren't necessarily accomplishing all of that vision quite yet. But we always saw the potential for it. And that's what we've been chasing.” Marco admits it took him and his team three solid years to really figure out how to attack this problem in a scalable and effective way. And so they had to find ways to stretch the money they had and they had to find creative ways to get started. But it also made it easier to find people to join the team who were excited and passionate about their mission, since all they had to offer was equity. How to keep your motivation when being told ‘no' repeatedly Every entrepreneur has gone through times when they have had multiple doors closed on them and they have heard ‘no' repeatedly. Part of being an entrepreneur is about having resilience, perseverance and a thick skin. Marco went through times like this, and he says it all comes down to what you fell in love with as an entrepreneur. When you go through tough times you get tested and you really find out what you love about your business. Are you in love with the solution or the product? Are you in love with solving a problem? Are you in love with having the label of entrepreneur? Because being rejected doesn't feel good, it's a horrible feeling and if you only love the idea of being an entrepreneur or if you are stuck on one product or specific solution, you may not stick with it for the long haul. For Marco and his team they knew the problem they were trying to solve and they were determined to keep going and to find the solution. And Marco admits he has lost faith in himself at times, and that is normal, but that's where you have to be grounded in your mission in order to keep going. Another thing that has helped Marco, self admittedly, along the way is his stubbornness. He says, “I've been very attached to this vision, because I think there's a real opportunity there. And, you know, I've talked to a lot of people, I've seen a lot of competitors try and attack that, none of that has dissuaded me from believing that there really is an enormous opportunity there that's worth chasing. And so I'm stubbornly gonna keep going.” The importance of self-awareness to Marco as a leader Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, but it takes self-awareness to know what yours are. Marco says it wasn't until he did a real 360 with an outside executive coach that he realized something important about himself. Marco has always prided himself on his adaptability and the fact that he is “stubborn on vision and flexible on strategy”. He doesn't care if the best idea comes from himself or from someone else as long as it's the best idea. But what he didn't realize was that this strength also has a failure mode without self-awareness. He learned that a lot of times he would realize someone else's idea was better and run with it without taking people along on that journey with him, which can be confusing at the very least. It can appear from the outside that he is wishy-washy or quick to change his mind, when really he went through an internal evolution to come to that decision. So knowing that about himself now he can be more careful and thoughtful about how he explains his decisions to others. “It's clearly just a personal trait of mine. And it comes from a strength, but you know, in many ways strengths overapplied are typically the source of people's weaknesses, or a common source of their weaknesses. And that was certainly true with me. And, you know, really pushed me towards this idea that what matters particularly to executives is talent, certainly, but really as much is self awareness. Because in that self awareness comes the ability to channel that talent to sort of build teams around that talent in the right way. And, you know, ultimately everybody's got them, so it's just a question of whether you're aware of them or not.” The number one mistake entrepreneurs make Marco shares that the number one mistake he made and that he sees other entrepreneurs making is not focusing enough. Do you really understand what you're solving? You have to have a deep understanding of your customers, the market, the problem, etc… in order to succeed. Once you have a clear understanding of what you are trying to solve, you can make progress. But without that you waste a lot of time and energy working on solving the wrong problems. The why is really, really important. We frequently get asked things like: What do we use for courses and email marketing? What platform do we use to find people to join our team? What tools do we use for project and task management? Where do we host and publish podcasts and how do we transcribe them? And More.  Well, we just put together the Entrepreneurs' Online Business Toolkit PDF which will give you a complete breakdown of the tools we use to run our 7-figure businesses and how we use them. Click here to grab a copy, it will be an invaluable resource in your entrepreneurial journey! 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Plexo Capital Managing Partner Lo Toney joins us this morning to discuss the broader market and share his thoughts on J.P. Morgan. Then, Luminar Founder and CEO Austin Russell is here on the company's latest design announcements seamlessly integrating lidar technology into cars, trucks and robo-taxis. Later, Sequoia Capital Partner Shaun Maguire joins our anchors to discuss the rise of BitClout and the broader cryptocurrency market. Also, New York Times reporter Karen Weise speaks to her latest article detailing the struggles faced by Amazon warehouse workers. Then, CNBC's Courtney Reagan has the scoop on Whole Foods since it was acquired by Amazon four years ago. Plus, Thumbtack Co-Founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta joins after the company, which connects independent contractors to customers, secured new funding raising its valuation to $3.2 billion.

Today’s episode is with Marco Zappacosta, co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. He’s spent the last 13 years building the company into a billion-dollar business  — and it’s his first and only job after graduating college.   In today’s conversation, Marco dives into the company milestones that require a return to first principles versus pulling from a tested playbook, and the mental models he leans on when parsing through the mountains of advice he gets as a first-time founder and CEO. He connects these dots to how he manages Thumbtack’s board so those quarterly meetings are a critical resource, not just a time suck — and why he shares the board deck with the entire company.   He also candidly reflects on Thumbtack’s COVID-related layoff last year, and what he specifically did as CEO to make sure the folks that remained still had confidence in the company and his leadership moving forward.    Finally, he opens up his playbook for choosing what to spend his time on as a busy CEO with only so many hours in the day — and perhaps more importantly, how he stays accountable for these priorities.   Today’s conversation is a must-listen for company-builders across all industries and growth stages, as well as folks that have hopes to someday occupy these same seats.    To learn more about how Marco and Thumbtack approach executive hiring, check out the article on First Round Review: https://review.firstround.com/assembling-an-executive-leadership-team-is-daunting-let-thumbtacks-ceo-help   You can follow Marco on Twitter at @mlz.   You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @ twitter.com/firstround and twitter.com/brettberson 

An episode in which I thank each of the 2020 guests.  A podcast first (probably).  I briefly recall – fondly – a bit of each of the 2020 episodes. Is it interesting?  I think so.  Can I do it in one take?  Turns out, yes.  Enjoy, and thank you for listening. Marco Zappacosta, Thumbtack Founder Keller Fitzsimmons, “Lost in Startuplandia” Author Jeff Macpherson, Tiki Bar TV Creator Brianne Kimmel, worklife Founder Paul-Henri Ferrand, Brex COO Matt Hulett, Rosetta Stone CEO Mike Stutz, Television Producer Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle Senior Political Writer Kaiser Kuo, Sinica Podcast Host Eric Tarczynski, Contrary Capital Founder Somesh Dash, IVP General Partner Monique Woodard, Cake Ventures Founder Michael Ellison, Codepath Founder Promise Phelon, The Growth Warrior Founder Scott Simpson, Comedian – Cheaper than Therapy Founder Parker Conrad, Rippling Founder Brad Feld, Foundry Group Founder Domm Holland, Fast Founder Garrett Smallwood, Wag Labs CEO Deena Shakir, Lux Capital Partner Rob Chesnut, AirBnB General Counsel William Davidow, Mohr Davidow Founder Trae Vassallo, Defy.vc Founder Sarah Leary, Nextdoor Co-founder Jaclyn Hester, Foundry Group Partner Hooman Radfar, Collective Founder Jeff John Roberts, “Kings of Crypto” Author Stacey Bishop, Scale Venture Partners

About this episode My guest this week is Marco Zappacosta. He is the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. Thumbtack is a local service marketplace that helps people like you and me find and hire skilled professionals. With Thumbtack, you can literally find a skilled professional for anything; I could even outsource the “honey-do” list from my wife. What is so especially amazing about Marco and is his story is that he is a self-taught entrepreneur. He founded Thumbtack as a startup right out of college. During our conversation, Marco shares that he and his partner founded their startup in the least conventional way possible. They didn't start Thumbtack with a known problem but founded it and then brainstormed what problem they could solve. Though it may have been unconventional, Thumbtack has grown to some incredible heights. We discuss this success throughout the episode as well as key tactics Marco used to navigate the 7 funding rounds that brought in over 400 million dollars from iconic venture firms. Tune in as we unpack the entrepreneurial journey of Marco Zappacosta. In this episode, you'll hear: All about Marco's childhood with immigrant entrepreneur parents. Why he didn't want to be an entrepreneur at first. How pension reform became a point of interest for him. How he transitioned from pension reform to Thumbtack. How he and his partners founded their startup without a known problem. The solutions they eventually decided to provide. Which side of their potential audience they focus on. Challenges and obstacles all entrepreneurs face. Their challenges in the startup stages of Thumback. What a winning pitch for capital looks like. How critical communication has been for Marco as a leader. Why he reworked the entire experience of Thumbtack. Resources from this episode Join Grindology: https://grindology.com/ ExpressVPN: Get 3 Months Free → ExpressVPN.com/StartupStory Get Emails: https://app.getemails.com/referrals/newaccount?ref=R18HWW5 The Startup Story Inner Circle: https://www.thestartupstory.co/vip The Startup Story on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thestartupstory The Startup Story is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jamesmckinney The Startup Story on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestartupstory Marco on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcozappacosta/ Thumbtack: http://www.thumbtack.com Share the podcast The Startup Story community has been so incredible sharing our podcast with others, and we thank you! We do have more stories to tell and more people to reach. There are three ways you can help. First, the most powerful way you can support this podcast is by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Second, follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and be sure to share your favorite Startup Story episodes with your friends and on social media. Tag or mention @thestartupstory.co so we can give you a virtual high five and a thank you! Lastly, share the podcast on LinkedIn. The Startup Story podcast is for entrepreneurs. Don't underestimate the power of sharing on LinkedIn so other entrepreneurs can discover us. With your support, we hope to further our reach in encouraging and inspiring the founders of today and tomorrow. Thank you! EPISODE CREDITS If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Danny Ozment. He helps thought leaders, influencers, executives, HR professionals, recruiters, lawyers, realtors, bloggers, and authors create, launch, and produce podcasts that grow their business and impact the world. Contact him today at https://emeraldcitypro.com/startupstory

On this episode of Mission Daily, CEO and Co-Founder of Thumbtack Marco Zappacosta, a company that connects consumers to local services professionals, discusses how he turned a lack of product-market fit into Thumbtack, the importance of business leaders being both aggressive and prudent, and why he's championing his team to remain focused. --- You can subscribe to our weekly newsletter at mission.org and find us on the socials at @TheMissionHQ. 

Marco Zappacosta is a co-Founder & CEO of Thumbtack, a startup that lets people find local professionals for “pretty much anything”.  Thumbtack has raised over $400 million and is valued at well over $1 billion.  Investors include Sequoia Capital, Cyan Banister, Jason Calcanis and brothers Ali and Hadi Partovi.  Marco has been recognized by Forbes as top “30 under 30” entrepreneur, and Thumbtack is recognized as one of Fortune's "Great Place to Work".   In this episode, Marco discusses how he built Thumbtack, and what it’s like to transition from overseeing a small team, to hundreds of people.  He talks about how Thumbtack is succeeding where others failed – getting liquidity in local services   We also discuss how Thumbtack enables local ‘entrepreneurs’ to build their business on its platform, and find a market for their traditional or unique service.  Finally we cover what structural changes are needed in the US economy to enable ‘gig’ workers, and why he’s been interested in the state of Social Security since college.   www.thumbtack.com   https://twitter.com/mlz

In this episode, Tej Singh and Adele Li interview Jake Poses, the Co-founder & CEO at Jumprope, a place to discover, create, and share how-to videos, like craft projects, tutorials, recipes, fitness routines, and others. Jumprope raised a $4.5M seed led by Lightspeed, with participation by Adobe Chief Product Officer, Scott Belsky, and Thumbtack co-founders Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson. Interview topics include his experiences growing up in NYC, attending Duke and running the sports section of the university's newspaper, working at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Bain Capital (PE), attending Stanford for his MBA, joining a then-8-person startup, Thumbtack, first as a summer intern and then full-time, eventually becoming the VP of Product, leading a 50-person team there and growing the company to a $1.25B valuation, and then finally moving to NYC to start Jumprope.

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Marco Zappacosta is the co-founder and CEO at Thumbtack which is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. The company has raised over $420 million from top tier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Draper Associate, and Javelin Venture Partners to name a few.

Marco Zappacosta is the co-founder and CEO at Thumbtack which is an online marketplace that connects millions of people with local professionals for their projects. The company has raised over $420 million from top tier investors such as Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, Draper Associate, and Javelin Venture Partners to name a few.

Marco Zappacosta (Co-founder & CEO of Thumbtack) talks with Pete Flint (NFX & founder of Trulia) about what it takes to build a billion-dollar marketplace and the lessons he's uncovered along the journey. They discuss how they solved the chicken & egg problem, what he would have done differently as an early-stage marketplace, fundraising lessons, and how short-term metrics can actually hinder long-term retention. Read more essays from NFX - www.nfx.com

Produced by Foundersuite.com, "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders who have raised capital. This episode is with Jake Poses of Jumprope.com, a video content platform for creating useful and engaging recipes, beauty tutorials, fitness routines and more. In this episode, Jake talks about how to get investors to answer your emails, the difference between the New York and San Francisco venture scenes, how to align fundraising with future milestones, why a monthly letter to investors is so valuable (and how to write an effective one), and more. The Company raised $4.5 million of seed funding in a deal led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors include Scott Belsky (Behance), Shrug Capital, Marco Zappacosta and Jonathan Swanson (Thumbtack). This series is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Learn more at www.foundersuite.com.

Last valued at $1.3 billion, Thumbtack provides a service marketplace for millions of consumers a year. So what's it like running the ship? Marco Zappacosta, Thumbtack's founder and CEO, walks us through how he thinks about differentiation in the gig economy, how to hire at scale, and how Thumbtack is empowering the small business economy.

Marco Zappacosta, co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, explains his solution to the fragmentation of the gig economy, effectively linking customers with suitable service providers. Read more: https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/2019/thumbtack-marco-zappacosta/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marco Zappacosta is the Founder & CEO @ Thumbtack, the startup that allows you to find local professionals for pretty much anything. To date, Thumbtack has raised over $270m in funding from some of the very best including Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (Google Growth), Ali and Hadi Partovi, Scott and Cyan Banister and Jason Calacanis. Due to Marco's incredible success scaling Thumbtack to helping millions of Americans today, he has been recognized by Forbes as 30 under 30 and Thumbtack was recently acknowledged as one of GlassDoor’s best places to work. CLICK TO PLAY CLICK TO LISTEN ON ITUNES In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Marco made his way into the world of startups and came to create one of the most prominent marketplaces of the day in Thumbtack? 2.) What does Marco mean when he says "founders must treat board members as employees"? How does Marco view the optimal structure for a board meeting? What are the core elements that founders must takeaway? Where do most first time founders go wrong with board management? 3.) Thumbtack has raised over $250m in VC funding, how can one look to achieve both operational efficiency and capital efficiency with such large injections of capital? What is core to maintaining this sense of frugality despite such large investments? How does Marco think about when is the right time to raise that warchest round? 4.) How does Marco suggest that marketplace founders can entice the supply side in the early days? How has Marco seen his supply-side acquisition change and develop with time? What has worked and what has not? Does Marco agree with Leah Busque that in marketplace, the NPS for one side will always be down? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Marco’s Fave Book: The Wizard and The Prophet As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Marco on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Cooley is a global law firm built around supporting start-ups and the venture capital firms that fund them. Now we have spoken before about their forming the first venture fund in Silicon Valley, and forming more VC funds than any other law firm in the world but Cooley also represents more than 6,000 high-growth startups across the globe – through the full company life cycle. They are the #1 law firm for VC-backed exits (M&A and IPO) ranked by PitchBook, and since 2014 has represented more companies in their IPOs than any other law firm.  Simply head over to Cooley.com or you can check them out at Cooleygo.com.

What the world needs now is a positive vision of the future of work. We’ve got plenty of dystopian visions of the rise of the robots, the race to the bottom of globalization, and the loss of myriad jobs on the horizon. Enough already. Marco Zappacosta, the young co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, one of...

What the world needs now is a positive vision of the future of work. We’ve got plenty of dystopian visions of the rise of the robots, the race to the bottom of globalization, and the loss of myriad jobs on the horizon. Enough already. Marco Zappacosta, the young co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, one of the most successful startups in the sharing economy, thinks we now need more positive thinking about how the next economy could work better for everyone.

Featured interview with Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta.   Larry Buhl reports on why entrepreneurship in America has been on the decline for decades.   Rachel Schneider comments on the terrible toll exacted by the financial volatility that many families experience.

The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dollar startup, getting rejected 42 times by venture capitalists (7:00), finally getting a "yes" (10:30), the importance of having entrepreneur parents (13:30), the myth of overnight success (14:30), competing with Amazon (17:30), insecurity in the "gig" economy (21:30), the atomisation of work (26:30), his worst day (31:30) and advice to his younger self (35:00). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 6 of Startup School Radio: Host Aaron Harris interviews Marco Zappacosta, Co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack. Also on the show: Sanjay Dastoor, Co-founder and CEO of Boosted.

Jenna and Marco Zappacosta discuss the team's big goal to make Thumbtack the first company people think of when they need to accomplish a project.