Ideation, Finding a Wedge, Seeding a Marketplace and How to Scale Yourself with an EA - with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset
Idea to Startup
English - May 10, 2023 09:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MB - ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsBusiness Education customer startup accelerators accelerator business startups entrepreneur entrepreneurship new york entrepreneurs acquisition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today we chat with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset. We cover a ton of ground - starting with the Sunday idea club that led to Thumbtack, how to scale a marketplace, and how to choose ideas you'd happily spent a decade on. Next, we jump into the science of delegation - the idea at the core of Athena. Jonathan talks through how to delegate to an EA, when to start with one, a system of delegation that creates asymmetric upside and what type of founders should consider it.
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