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Field notes2015-09-30 · Archive

Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession

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“IIRC, when we switched over from subscription to the pay-per-introduction model, something like 80% of pros could have used Thumbtack exactly the same as they …”

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Building Thumbtack: Six Years, Forty-two Rejections, and a Singular Obsession

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