Founder/Chairman @thumbtack & @athenago & https://t.co/TRiL1X4kl6
I always dreamed of having 48 hours in a day: https://t.co/q5Rb2Q02SI
Feb 15, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
1/ People often ask me:
"How can I best leverage an assistant?" 😬
Or
"What are all the things I should be delegating?" 😅
Delegation is the key to unlocking personal and professional growth, but the art is vastly misunderstood.
@AthenaGo exists to change this. 💪
2/ We decided we wanted to answer this question -- "what AND how should I be delegating?" -- more completely and powerfully than anyone has before.
So this week Athena is launching our library of delegation playbooks. 👨🎓
May 13, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Hiring execs is one of the highest leverage things you will do as a founder. It’s also the thing that founders most consistently mess up.
If you do it right, it will transform your trajectory. If you mess it up, it will set you back months or years — or worse.
2/ Here’s how to get it right:
1/ Silicon Valley is good at covering the fundraises, the product launches, the acquisitions. 🍾 Those are important things but represent <0.1% of what building a company is about.
2/ So we wanted to pull back the curtain at Thumbtack and share the real story behind our new $150M fundraise (a lot of blood sweat & tears): thumbtack.com/blog/blood-swe…
Jan 16, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
1/ We recently celebrated a decade (!) of building Thumbtack so I’m sharing a few of the lessons we’ve learned along the way.
And for the lazy web, here's some highlights:
2/ A decade ago: I was sleeping in a closet at Thumbtack’s first house, which we pretended was an office. We had no customers, no product, no money (thus the closet).
