Ted Glasnow

Setting up Customer.io requires significant upfront and ongoing investments of developer time

When considering building a marketplace, there are many decisions you have to make upfront, particularly whether they want to own the infrastructure or partner with the best-in-class partner or provider. For example, if you were starting a marketplace four or five years ago, you probably were building a lot of this stuff yourself. But suppose I’m... See more

the third wave beyond that – and it's not totally mutually exclusive—is the cellular agriculture wave. It's a little bit of a different animal, pun intended, because cellular agriculture is intending to recreate animal tissue in a lab. 

"In the early days at Thumbtack, so much of our growth was coming from SEO that it made sense for it to dominate our growth roadmap. We spent disproportionate time generating content, earning links, and optimizing conversion on SEO landing pages. Over time, however, it became clear that we were running into diminishing returns from these efforts,... See more

The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:1. Mission - What are you meant to achieve2. Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it3. Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it4. Strategy - What is the path to achieving it5. Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make

In Asia, for example, where fermented products like soy and so forth have been around forever, it's received better.

It's...not just unions, but the municipalities, the planners, the permitting offices, the inspectors, the cities. They're all going to have an opinion and a view on us. We'll be under the radar for a little bit, of course.