Thumbtack
☆ WatchFind local pros, compare prices and book home services in a few simple steps. Thumbtack makes caring for your home easier. observed
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Find local pros, compare prices and book home services in a few simple steps. Thumbtack makes caring for your home easier. observed
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it's obvious that you're going to win and that whatever the hurdle is in front of you you will knock it down
to building a great site like thumbtack.com
a San Francisco based local services website that helps verify that the people you're hiring actually are not insane murderers unlike the other one Craigslist
we're at the high end the higher end yeah
valuations is you know it's an art more than a science ... it was high enough where people were comfortable with uh you know one or two people did walk away maybe because of the price um but which is actually it's good
we thought that 1.2 would buy us the runway that we need to you know become Venture back and to really more than that come to that table with some bargaining power
with that it changed everything you know this social proof thing this credibility ... having that in hand makes the rest of the rest of the game much easier
the reaction was very positive um and so that really is what set us going on our entire Angel round
you've taken out so much risk The Branding risk is out the uh Revenue model is out and are they capable of building something all those risks are are out of the way
you knew that building a product was important you knew that finding some work independent value was important and you knew a good domain name was important and you're willing to sacrifice to grow this business whether it means living at home or putting 12gs on your credit card or pay pay down for this domain and taking massive risk this is what entrepreneurships about
we paid a third up front and then at 6% Finance the rest over the first year
the internet's so good at bringing people together and intermediating transactions but it really hasn't been applied to this huge huge space
we do have some more challenges finding some good Engineers which is really what our first order hiring it's very hard to find great engineers in the valley
and now there no downside none for them none
the way that we track that is that 45% of the people that hit our signup page sign up
so far we haven't had to pay any money right um we've done it all programmatically
the thing that they're probably the worst at is the individual service provider they all nail the storefront businesses but we want to move beyond that
we want to create a Marketplace not just a directory we want to take things further than Angie's List or Yelp
I think it's something that really separates us from most local plays you know we don't buy data and put it up un claimed we don't scrape content and put it up unclaimed every single one of our posts has been added by that individual
we now have over 50,000 small businesses that have registered on thumb Tech
we have with us today Marco zapak Casta he is the CEO and founder of Thumbtack a company I just invested in
the reaction to Thumbtack at that open Angel Forum was they were obviously going to get funding in a short amount of time it was I think one of the two or three companies out of the 50 companies who have been at open Angel Forum that did the best I mean you have a great business model
another site that's really interesting Thumbtack which I invested in
very very very few of them are full are not interested in taking new business uh you talk to any of these local small businesses and they're all sort of struggling and hustling to get more clients and that's why we've been able to attract so many of them
we are much more likely to give it to them than a random friend on Facebook
I think that's a reflection of the fact that there is no until Thumbtack no good place to go that has the insight into the market to give you a reliable introduction
despite customers spending $800 billion a year on these categories of services um there's really been no innovation from really the dawn of newspaper classifieds or dawn of the Yellow Pages because the big online players like Craigslist Yelp Angie's List are really online versions of these old offline products they haven't fundamentally reorganized how this interaction happens and that's sort of what we've been chasing and doing for these last four years
we are replacing the Yellow Pages and this is all coming in in just the last minute all across the country
for these creative um jobs that people didn't know they could do full-time we're definitely bringing that to them
we're reducing those transaction costs for the two sides to come together and through that empowering professionals to work the amount that they want to work so we see this happening a lot in the creative trades
so it goes out to on average about 20 to 25 professionals the ones who are in our Network who are qualified and who serve your area
Yelp is great at solving the problem of where should I go if you're trying to figure out a restaurant a spa ... but it's the wrong solution when you're trying to figure out who can come to me it's a very different problem um and for that you really need much more of a Marketplace experience
every review in Thumbtack is by somebody who's actually confirmed to have done business yes so it's who came through us so we see what the request was and we see what the review is so it's tied much more specifically to an actual job it's not a casual just sort of drive by review
it turned out to be important but reviews were even more important so um we've seen customers become more and more comfortable with hiring people on the Internet it's generally a cultural shift that's happening and so there isn't so much fear around this person being um uh a bad person there's fear around them not having the right fit not being of the right quality not charging the right price that sort of professionalism and experience is what customers are really trying to audit and the best w
our model has given them um a better Roi than they've seen anywhere else we hear all the time of people leaving Angie's List leaving Yelp leaving Craigslist because we give them both the control they're after as well as the ROI
we haven't had to do that because the product sells itself um what we do is we'll spend money to buy advertising to build awareness among service Professionals of our offering but then it's self- serve it's a true self- serve platform
we're at 63,000 so we're now bigger than Angie's List in terms of paying professionals and we're almost going to catch up with yel um who are just at 72,000 I believe
last year we sent um almost $700 Million worth of business to our professionals last month we sent them $200 million wow so we've seen uh a lot of growth Forex growth year-over-year and there are now 3 million customers coming um a year sort of getting their projects accomplished through Thumbtack
we actually see conversion rates go up when we ask the right questions... we use that conversion rate as a way of auditing whether we've put in too many questions or too few
we've done this for almost a thousand different categories and basically we're creating the skew of every service you can think of
The Challenge though is then you as the customer have to do all of the leg work to figure out which of these folks is available which one's is interested in my job how much are they going to charge me are they a good fit for me and quite simply it's a pain in the ass it's really hard to get local it's Services it's very hard and so we've basically flipped the model
thumb Tech helps you accomplish the personal projects that are Central in your life be it repainting your house getting in shape helping your kid learn how to play the piano um and these aren't new problem s right we didn't impose this or create this problem but we're going about solving it in a very new way
I've seen people turn down Twitter Zinga Uber and thumbtack over valuation issues in those cases all four of those companies had people turn them down overvaluation and then later of course turned out to be very wrong
I invested in those companies had like five four or5 million each in valuation and this person wanted like a nine and I was like eight or nine and I was like you know your your progress is far beneath where they those two are at when I invested in them that was a couple years ago
it happened to me with Uber and thumb tag like I wasn't even a minute into these companies and goala too I was just like God this product is so gorgeous I I got to give this person money
I think it was our process and the rigor that we brought to all of these decisions and we may have said hey we haven't figured this out but here's how we're thinking about it here's the plan of attack here's the metrics we're going to track and I think they realized that we were worth betting on that we had the approach and the mindset that could find our way through any and all of the challenges that were still to come
it took us four years to solve all those problems and in March of 13 we had raised $6.5 million in the uh sort of two years since that I guess it's two in a little bit now uh we've raised you know $270 million
in our series a um we met Javelin Venture Partners who backed us and have been amazing to us and like you they bet on us so they saw the potential in the market everyone saw the potential in the market they saw the potential in us and so they took that bet
when it comes to raising money you can't look back on what you've previously accomplished and sort of try and raise off of that you have to look forward to the next round and realize what is the next round asking of me and how am I going to get there and how I'm going to prove to them that I'm going to accomplish these Milestones such that I can get to that next level
we built a way for professionals to quickly post their Thumbtack profile onto Craigslist
subscriptions had a fundamental flaw and that was we weren't charging on the margin of value creation
we got a bunch of noes when we were raising our series A um and that was by and large because we hadn't solved the monetization problem
we're now sending them a billion dollars worth of business every [Music] year
we've been able to engage 200,000 active paying professionals
we now have 5 million projects happening through the platform a year
we Now cover a thousand different categories
thumb Tac we believe is the easiest and best way to hire a huge number of local services
hiring a plumber is actually more like dating than it is like dining
we just announced rais $125 million uh from a group of investors at a $1.3 billion valuation
Thumbtack also a unicorn
this is the second most successful in my 150 Angel Investments Uber of course is number one
I invested in the first round of Thumbtack and Uber and um you know that was a $9 million valuation ... it was 9 million combined for the two companies five and four
one of the things we like the most about them when they pitched is when we asked them questions they didn't know they said they didn't know and then dove into their their database and looked it up which showed us they're intellectually honest and they're data focused
in 2016 I think you want to have both a switch is flipped on in other words be like uber or a thumbtack where they're making a portion of the transaction every month and they have modernization on
I comment on Uber and thumbtack I am an investor in these companies
I hope like Thumbtack becomes worth 25 billion or 100 billion which it could
then my Uber position my Thumbtack position became worth 200 million that fund was outperforming the Sequoia fund that it was in parallel to I believe
thumb Tac um I was the second or third investor in and they became worth a billion dollars and it took them three or four years to figure out exactly what the business was but I just looked at Marco who was the founder of the company and when I asked him questions about why he was doing what he was doing with thumac his answers were so rich and passionate and detailed that I thought this person is an incredible Craftsman he there's an attention to detail to what they're doing
it's a 99% chance the company's going out of business and a 1% chance it's Uber or Thumbtack or one of these you know breakout successes
So, if like if you look at Uber, Thumbtack, Postmates, all of these, Manolo, etc., are companies that believe that if they create this thing, people will behave in a totally different new way than they ever did before.
my job for my my partnership with Scott was to go out and find new deals outside of our network. And you know, that's Uber was not in our network, neither was Thumbtack.
thumbtack was four million so those had been ate and I turned it down or ten that would be a disaster
thumbtack I know they went over to a referral fee
Marko when he was showing me the product it was originally more like a directory than fill out a form and a dossier then get quotes back of who might be a great service provider it was originally like a directory almost like a Yelp and in the Yelp like version of thumbtack the one point I which he pivot away from okay pivoting away from it in that first version he had a little icon that was like a driver's license and a house and I was like what are those on the website because his pre-web reall
security is the most important thing and if we don't do that nothing else really matters
on thumbtack the average pro's learning more than 50 bucks an hour so it's a middle-class living
the scary part and something that we as a platform after work harder on is providing more security because the biggest challenge with these gig jobs is they are not certain
if you only charge a percent of the job when it's done you have two big problems one is policing... secondly again it goes back to the same issue when the pro knows they only get charged when they win the job... you have a terrible customer experience
what I'm not sure about is whether our business model will be a transactional one so today we charge per lead
we will we will close the loop all on thumbtack it's already sort of like in some sub cases being tested live
I think in some ways we still haven't fully cracked it you know exactly what you charge for what do you give back where do you really take your margin how do you price really really hard things to get right
we tried originally to not have that happen to not have them pay and what would happen is they would kind of like spray-and-pray they'd respond to everybody
in our case the fee makes the experience better because the pros self qualify by virtue of paying
the biggest asset that exists in the world is human talent and the time we have to express it and that is something that I still think is that day not even one day zero of being liberated and that is something we're working on but it's bigger than just us
there is a question of when are you really creating value and are you aligning your fee to that value creation so for example something like some tax we charge for the first match
marketplaces have this beauty that they are positive sum nobody loses when you find and hire a pro on thumbtack you in the Pro wins and we win and that's a great business to be in
it was a narrative violation because historically what we had said to ourselves is our magic sauce what makes us unique is that these are human crafted... people's first reaction was like well doesn't this just make us a list
our biggest competitor is word of mouth... life in our sector it is just really really hard to make that match because it's so specific we're more like a dating service than we are ecommerce
we eliminated the entire step of a pro being in the loop to generate these quotes... we can instantly show you the list of not just two three four but twenty thirty forty... the only way we become the Amazon for services
it actually wasn't due to growth rates growth was pretty strong it was due to actually that quotes per request metric so this had been our North Star we had thrown a ton of engineering and product work and marketing and we never could move it
you might actually buy asking that sixth seventh and eighth question are you supplying the paint or are they supplying the paint I remember was one of the questions when I went through this and if you get if you are not serious about it if you're just looking for pricing because you might be painting next year or you're curious you're gonna drop off so you get rid of the looky-loos it's self qualifies and it actually turns into product marketing
the more questions we ask the customer the more quotes we could give them and despite the fact that conversion rate would dip a little not surprisingly you ask customers more questions some Robert some more are gonna fall off actually less than you would think in our case but not zero got it but when you looked at the value to pros who then had richer data and context to respond to they loved it
for us early on it was getting each customer 3 plus quotes and what that told us was when we got you more than three quotes we knew you had a great experience your MPs was super high your repeat rate was high
thumbtack has always been about accomplishment it's about getting done you have a problem you got a need you come to us you get it done similarly for these pros they're trying to grow they're trying to get that done so accomplishment and that is really important
I worry about founders today because of how much noise there is around the expectations of how quickly things should happen
over the first five years of the company it's less than our annual rent now
I would I bet it breaks down by age yeah and there's price some cutoff I my guess is it's in the 30s yeah maybe early 40s now we're you know like you'll use the phone to call mom but everybody else gets a text
we realized that you know mobile was where all of our best customers were going that's where our best engagement was
availability and getting sort of real-time availability is sort of the next frontier for us such that we can turn it into a sort of an instant book experience
we've done this for about two-thirds of our categories and now we will keep working through and not surprising there's the long tail of stuff like appliance repair that's like an infinite grind to get right but that's also differentiation and defense ability for us to do that work
all the prices come from our pros we don't set prices which also helps us not have any of the worker classification issues that some other platforms have because it's their brand it's their hours it's their prices
the solution was we had to automate this whole process for these pros so instead of them reading and responding they would tell us here the customers I want here's where I travel here's how much I charge here's what I'm available and then we can instantly reveal that to customers such that they don't have to wait for quotes to come back we can instantly generate them sort of search results but not just names and numbers truly actionable results that are tailored to them
the amount of work that it took our pros to read review and respond to every request was so much that they could never respond all the demand we had which meant that our customers didn't get enough options back
I'm really excited to have my good friend Marco Zappacosta on the program he is of course the founder of thumbtack which was I think the third or fourth angel investment I ever made 10 years ago has it been a deck started with the bang you had a pretty good run out of the gate
at the end of the day my career is going to be made by uber calm Robin Hood thumbtack data stacks wealthfront probably that cohort desktop metal
when I saw Thumbtack, uh Robinhood, Uber, and calm.com in the early days, all of those, even though the products were very simple and janky at you know, uh on the margins, like Uber was called Uber Taxi. Um it's not a taxi. Um there were subtle moments of brilliant on the pro- brilliance in the product.
so something like a thumbtack imagine they didn't have piano teachers and they said hey let's say you want to make a musical I'll just make one up here a marketplace for music teachers to do virtual lessons not a bad idea given the market
VentureSignalScore 0/100 for thumbtack, composed from 1 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.79 for 30% signal coverage
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| funding_magnitude | 0.3 | 0 |
funding.round.amount_usd 2010-08-10 artifact ↗ An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.
A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.
No reported round and no SEC filing on record — no financing date is established.
Gray-market attention, not quality. 10+ HN mentions (peak 57 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 57 Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession 2015-09-29 ↗
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common_name | Thumbtack | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-19 | normalized | 0.60 |
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community.hn.max_points | 57 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 50 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.mentions | 10 | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-10-08 | normalized | 0.20 |
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community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific | observed | artifact ↗ | 2020-03-30 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific | observed | artifact ↗ | 2020-03-30 | superseded | 0.20 |
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community.hn.rumors | [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20", "evidence_type": "rumor", "verific | observed | artifact ↗ | 2020-03-30 | superseded | 0.20 |
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community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202742", "title": "Thumbtack, an Online Market for Services, Raises $100M", "points": 90, "created_at": "2014-08-20"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-08-20 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298499", "title": "Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession", "points": 57, "created_at": "2015-09-29"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-09-29 | superseded | 0.20 |
community.hn.top_story | {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298499", "title": "Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession", "points": 57, "created_at": "2015-09-29"} | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-09-29 | superseded | 0.20 |
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description | Invested in Thumbtack along with Uber. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-08-18 | normalized | 0.60 |
description | Find local pros, compare prices and book home services in a few simple steps. Thumbtack makes caring for your home easier. | observed | artifact ↗ | 2026-09-19 | normalized | 0.70 |
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signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "all the prices come from our pros we don't set prices which also helps us not have any of the worker classification is | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "we've done this for about two-thirds of our categories and now we will keep working through and not surprising there's | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "availability and getting sort of real-time availability is sort of the next frontier for us such that we can turn it i | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "we realized that you know mobile was where all of our best customers were going that's where our best engagement was", | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "I would I bet it breaks down by age yeah and there's price some cutoff I my guess is it's in the 30s yeah maybe early | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "over the first five years of the company it's less than our annual rent now", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 0.95, | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "I worry about founders today because of how much noise there is around the expectations of how quickly things should h | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "thumbtack has always been about accomplishment it's about getting done you have a problem you got a need you come to u | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "for us early on it was getting each customer 3 plus quotes and what that told us was when we got you more than three q | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "the more questions we ask the customer the more quotes we could give them and despite the fact that conversion rate wo | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "you might actually buy asking that sixth seventh and eighth question are you supplying the paint or are they supplying | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "it actually wasn't due to growth rates growth was pretty strong it was due to actually that quotes per request metric | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "we eliminated the entire step of a pro being in the loop to generate these quotes... we can instantly show you the lis | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "our biggest competitor is word of mouth... life in our sector it is just really really hard to make that match because | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "it was a narrative violation because historically what we had said to ourselves is our magic sauce what makes us uniqu | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "marketplaces have this beauty that they are positive sum nobody loses when you find and hire a pro on thumbtack you in | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "there is a question of when are you really creating value and are you aligning your fee to that value creation so for | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "the biggest asset that exists in the world is human talent and the time we have to express it and that is something th | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "in our case the fee makes the experience better because the pros self qualify by virtue of paying", "stance": "bullish | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "we tried originally to not have that happen to not have them pay and what would happen is they would kind of like spra | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "I think in some ways we still haven't fully cracked it you know exactly what you charge for what do you give back wher | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "we will we will close the loop all on thumbtack it's already sort of like in some sub cases being tested live", "stanc | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "what I'm not sure about is whether our business model will be a transactional one so today we charge per lead", "stanc | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "if you only charge a percent of the job when it's done you have two big problems one is policing... secondly again it | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "the scary part and something that we as a platform after work harder on is providing more security because the biggest | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "on thumbtack the average pro's learning more than 50 bucks an hour so it's a middle-class living", "stance": "bullish" | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2TXQDXEG2A7G5SHW8MGX1JS", "signals": [{"quote": "security is the most important thing and if we don't do that nothing else really matters", "stance": "neutral", "confi | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2V140MG4SC509HZ7G2GMM6F", "signals": [{"quote": "Marko when he was showing me the product it was originally more like a directory than fill out a form and a dossier th | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-10-09 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2V5Q8ZG3VDFJJD54GNQ7CF1", "signals": [{"quote": "thumbtack I know they went over to a referral fee", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 0.9, "signal_class": "fact_clai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2019-06-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VXPR7G6C5GQF8ANJRP3GCP", "signals": [{"quote": "thumbtack was four million so those had been ate and I turned it down or ten that would be a disaster", "stance": "bul | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-08-26 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VY1EVMSRPHY342MWJV493Z", "signals": [{"quote": "my job for my my partnership with Scott was to go out and find new deals outside of our network. And you know, that's | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-08-23 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VY1EVMSRPHY342MWJV493Z", "signals": [{"quote": "So, if like if you look at Uber, Thumbtack, Postmates, all of these, Manolo, etc., are companies that believe that if | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-08-23 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VZF70KDDZVBE3CS048KBQG", "signals": [{"quote": "it's a 99% chance the company's going out of business and a 1% chance it's Uber or Thumbtack or one of these you know | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-07-26 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VZF70KDDZVBE3CS048KBQG", "signals": [{"quote": "thumb Tac um I was the second or third investor in and they became worth a billion dollars and it took them three or f | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-07-26 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2VZF70KDDZVBE3CS048KBQG", "signals": [{"quote": "then my Uber position my Thumbtack position became worth 200 million that fund was outperforming the Sequoia fund that | observed | artifact ↗ | 2017-07-26 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2W5FRS83PN4HTQ8RKBR1TNC", "signals": [{"quote": "I hope like Thumbtack becomes worth 25 billion or 100 billion which it could", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 1, " | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-12-17 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WAHEZEEHR0PDD7YRB56XDV", "signals": [{"quote": "I comment on Uber and thumbtack I am an investor in these companies", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_cl | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-06-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WGQW231KJ2XR3FADE3VVB4", "signals": [{"quote": "in 2016 I think you want to have both a switch is flipped on in other words be like uber or a thumbtack where they're | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-01-12 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WH7JM429NKEK8VJ55WGRDQ", "signals": [{"quote": "one of the things we like the most about them when they pitched is when we asked them questions they didn't know they | observed | artifact ↗ | 2016-01-08 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WHJZK5XWCRBV58SV2KSZ79", "signals": [{"quote": "I invested in the first round of Thumbtack and Uber and um you know that was a $9 million valuation ... it was 9 milli | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-12-22 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "this is the second most successful in my 150 Angel Investments Uber of course is number one", "stance": "bullish", "co | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "Thumbtack also a unicorn", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 0.9, "signal_class": "fact_claim", "speaker_name": "Jaso | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we just announced rais $125 million uh from a group of investors at a $1.3 billion valuation", "stance": "neutral", "c | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "hiring a plumber is actually more like dating than it is like dining", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 0.8, "signal | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "thumb Tac we believe is the easiest and best way to hire a huge number of local services", "stance": "bullish", "confi | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we Now cover a thousand different categories", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_class": "fact_claim", "sp | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we now have 5 million projects happening through the platform a year", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_c | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we've been able to engage 200,000 active paying professionals", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, "signal_class": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we're now sending them a billion dollars worth of business every [Music] year", "stance": "neutral", "confidence": 1, | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we got a bunch of noes when we were raising our series A um and that was by and large because we hadn't solved the mon | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "subscriptions had a fundamental flaw and that was we weren't charging on the margin of value creation", "stance": "neu | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "we built a way for professionals to quickly post their Thumbtack profile onto Craigslist", "stance": "neutral", "confi | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "when it comes to raising money you can't look back on what you've previously accomplished and sort of try and raise of | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "in our series a um we met Javelin Venture Partners who backed us and have been amazing to us and like you they bet on | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "it took us four years to solve all those problems and in March of 13 we had raised $6.5 million in the uh sort of two | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WJH6FR106N22E9A7SDC7BQ", "signals": [{"quote": "I think it was our process and the rigor that we brought to all of these decisions and we may have said hey we haven't | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-11-27 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WS3CA1PRTATYHJMGY4RSE7", "signals": [{"quote": "it happened to me with Uber and thumb tag like I wasn't even a minute into these companies and goala too I was just li | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-04-25 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WTXQAF0QZGN0BK6BAJHRN8", "signals": [{"quote": "I invested in those companies had like five four or5 million each in valuation and this person wanted like a nine and | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-02-20 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2WTXQAF0QZGN0BK6BAJHRN8", "signals": [{"quote": "I've seen people turn down Twitter Zinga Uber and thumbtack over valuation issues in those cases all four of those com | observed | artifact ↗ | 2015-02-20 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "thumb Tech helps you accomplish the personal projects that are Central in your life be it repainting your house gettin | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "The Challenge though is then you as the customer have to do all of the leg work to figure out which of these folks is | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we've done this for almost a thousand different categories and basically we're creating the skew of every service you | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we actually see conversion rates go up when we ask the right questions... we use that conversion rate as a way of audi | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "last year we sent um almost $700 Million worth of business to our professionals last month we sent them $200 million w | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "on Thumbtack it works very differently so when you as a customer come in and sort of request a service from us we send | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | derived | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we're at 63,000 so we're now bigger than Angie's List in terms of paying professionals and we're almost going to catch | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we haven't had to do that because the product sells itself um what we do is we'll spend money to buy advertising to bu | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "our model has given them um a better Roi than they've seen anywhere else we hear all the time of people leaving Angie' | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "it turned out to be important but reviews were even more important so um we've seen customers become more and more com | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "every review in Thumbtack is by somebody who's actually confirmed to have done business yes so it's who came through u | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "Yelp is great at solving the problem of where should I go if you're trying to figure out a restaurant a spa ... but it | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "so it goes out to on average about 20 to 25 professionals the ones who are in our Network who are qualified and who se | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we're reducing those transaction costs for the two sides to come together and through that empowering professionals to | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "for these creative um jobs that people didn't know they could do full-time we're definitely bringing that to them", "s | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we are replacing the Yellow Pages and this is all coming in in just the last minute all across the country", "stance": | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "despite customers spending $800 billion a year on these categories of services um there's really been no innovation fr | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "I think that's a reflection of the fact that there is no until Thumbtack no good place to go that has the insight into | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "we are much more likely to give it to them than a random friend on Facebook", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 0.6, | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2X47J4PABZQAKVYH37W00KP", "signals": [{"quote": "very very very few of them are full are not interested in taking new business uh you talk to any of these local small | observed | artifact ↗ | 2014-07-18 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2Z3JE4T80JTM9NZ44PQ79RS", "signals": [{"quote": "another site that's really interesting Thumbtack which I invested in", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 0.9, "signal | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-12-11 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2ZM8C7CKY743KCVDRY5BNGX", "signals": [{"quote": "the reaction to Thumbtack at that open Angel Forum was they were obviously going to get funding in a short amount of t | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-08-10 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2ZM8C7CKY743KCVDRY5BNGX", "signals": [{"quote": "we have with us today Marco zapak Casta he is the CEO and founder of Thumbtack a company I just invested in", "stance" | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-08-10 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2ZM8C7CKY743KCVDRY5BNGX", "signals": [{"quote": "we now have over 50,000 small businesses that have registered on thumb Tech", "stance": "bullish", "confidence": 1, "s | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-08-10 | promoted | 0.50 |
signal.commentary | {"context": null, "run_ref": "01M2ZM8C7CKY743KCVDRY5BNGX", "signals": [{"quote": "I think it's something that really separates us from most local plays you know we don't buy data and put it up un clai | observed | artifact ↗ | 2010-08-10 | promoted | 0.50 |
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