39 min
How To Grow an Idea Into a Business With Mike Evans, Co-Founder of Grubhub and Founder of Fixer From Persona To Personal
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Mike Evans is the Co-founder of Grubhub, which he started in his spare bedroom in 2002 and grew into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery service that it is today. After going public as an IPO, Mike left the company in 2014. He then rode his bike across the US and began authoring Hangry: A Startup Journey, a memoir about founding Grubhub.
A few years after leaving Grubhub, Mike founded the Chicago-based company Fixer, an on-demand handyperson B-corp that trains its employees from scratch and responds to customer requests with skilled, friendly workers in less than an hour. His goal is to create a career path alternative to the “gig” economy and provide opportunities for young people to enter the building trades arena and establish sustainable careers.
What you’ll learn in this episode: Have you ever wanted something, but what you needed didn’t exist? Could you grow a business out of fulfilling that need? Could it be the next biggest thing? So, what lessons can you learn from someone who’s been there, done that?
The food delivery giant Grubhub started as a delivery guide Mike Evans created in his spare bedroom after he struggled to find a restaurant that delivered pizza. Eventually, he turned his little delivery guide into the world’s premier online ordering platform. In doing so, he entered the level that an elite few entrepreneurs hit and took his startup from an idea all the way to an IPO. Mike figured it out as he went along, making many mistakes along the way. He incorporated ideas into the business to discover what worked and made adaptations to propel business growth. Taking an idea, creating a business out of it, and scaling that business to be a giant is not a clear, apparent straight line, but it can be done.
On this special edition of From Persona to Personal, Roger Hurni and co-host John Corcoran talk with Mike Evans, Co-founder of Grubhub and Founder of Fixer, about the many moving parts of building an idea into a business. Mike details his journey as the Co-founder of Grubhub, from why he started it to how it evolved to the many obstacles he faced along the way. He shares why he decided to walk away and ride his bike across the country, write a book, and then start something new.
Mike Evans is the Co-founder of Grubhub, which he started in his spare bedroom in 2002 and grew into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery service that it is today. After going public as an IPO, Mike left the company in 2014. He then rode his bike across the US and began authoring Hangry: A Startup Journey, a memoir about founding Grubhub.
A few years after leaving Grubhub, Mike founded the Chicago-based company Fixer, an on-demand handyperson B-corp that trains its employees from scratch and responds to customer requests with skilled, friendly workers in less than an hour. His goal is to create a career path alternative to the “gig” economy and provide opportunities for young people to enter the building trades arena and establish sustainable careers.
What you’ll learn in this episode: Have you ever wanted something, but what you needed didn’t exist? Could you grow a business out of fulfilling that need? Could it be the next biggest thing? So, what lessons can you learn from someone who’s been there, done that?
The food delivery giant Grubhub started as a delivery guide Mike Evans created in his spare bedroom after he struggled to find a restaurant that delivered pizza. Eventually, he turned his little delivery guide into the world’s premier online ordering platform. In doing so, he entered the level that an elite few entrepreneurs hit and took his startup from an idea all the way to an IPO. Mike figured it out as he went along, making many mistakes along the way. He incorporated ideas into the business to discover what worked and made adaptations to propel business growth. Taking an idea, creating a business out of it, and scaling that business to be a giant is not a clear, apparent straight line, but it can be done.
On this special edition of From Persona to Personal, Roger Hurni and co-host John Corcoran talk with Mike Evans, Co-founder of Grubhub and Founder of Fixer, about the many moving parts of building an idea into a business. Mike details his journey as the Co-founder of Grubhub, from why he started it to how it evolved to the many obstacles he faced along the way. He shares why he decided to walk away and ride his bike across the country, write a book, and then start something new.
39 min