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Recording of the Everything Marketplaces Group Chat #158 (4/30) with Marco Zappacosta, who's the Co-founder & CEO of Thumbtack. Thumbtack is an early marketplace that's scaled to now being the largest marketplace for home services. Thumbtack has 300,000+ service professionals on their platform, over 80 million projects have been completed on it, and they’ve raised over $500 million from top investors like Sequoia.

0:06 Intro
1:04 Marco's background
1:50 The founding story & first steps for starting Thumbtack
5:33 How Thumbtack took the strategy of going broad across categories & markets
8:40 How Thumbtack has evolved
17:43 Pivot points in growth for Thumbtack
20:15 Fundraising tips for early stage marketplace founders
21:58 Group Q&A on tips for team building & hiring
25:09 Group Q&A on the next era for Thumbtack
29:37 Group Q&A on Thumbtack's big relaunch
32:50 Group Q&A on preventing marketplace disintermediation
34:58 Group Q&A on the impact AI will have on local service marketplaces
37:28 Group Q&A on the competitive nature of marketplaces & defensibility
40:08 Marco sharing parting marketplace advice

Marco on Twitter:   / mlz  
Thumbtack: https://www.thumbtack.com
Mike (Yoroomie) on Twitter:   / yoroomie  

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