Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta: "We got 42 'no's' before we got a 'yes'"

The Sunday Times tech corespondent Danny Fortson brings on Marco Zappacosta, the 31-year old founder of Thumbtack to talk about building a billion-dollar startup, getting rejected 42 times by venture capitalists (7:00), finally getting a "yes" (10:30), the importance of having entrepreneur parents (13:30), the myth of overnight success (14:30), competing with Amazon (17:30), insecurity in the "gig" economy (21:30), the atomisation of work (26:30), his worst day (31:30) and advice to his younger self (35:00). Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dannyinthevalley.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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