Starting & Scaling Thumbtack Into A $3B+ Home Services Marketplace With Marco Zappacosta

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The Everything Marketplaces podcast is an audio version of our group chats. This episode is with Marco Zappacosta, who's the Co-founder & CEO of Thumbtack. Thumbtack is an early marketplace that's scaled to now being the largest home services marketplace. Thumbtack has 300,000+ service professionals on their platform, over 80 million projects have been completed on Thumbtack, and they’ve raised over $500 million from top investors like Sequoia. Marco on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mlz Thumbtack: https://www.thumbtack.com Mike (Yoroomie) on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/yoroomie⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Everything Marketplaces: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.everythingmarketplaces.com

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