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Read to Lead Podcast

447: The Inside Story of a Multibillion Dollar Behemoth with Mike Evans

Read to Lead Podcast

Jeff Brown

Management, Arts, Education, Books, Self-improvement, Business

4.9532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s not every day I get to interview the founder of a multiBILLION dollar startup. Today, however, is indeed such a day. That founder is Mike Evans of Grubhub and—more recently—Fixer fame. Mike has a brand new book out today that unpacks his story in entertaining fashion. The book is called HANGRY: A Startup Journey. […]

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0:00.0

This is the Read to Lead podcast, episode 447.

0:12.7

If you set a personal definition of success, as you begin to approach it, you're changed.

0:17.3

Your change is a person.

0:18.5

The finish line is sort of always, like, creeping further away from you as you approach it.

0:23.0

What is that one thing that gets in your crawl?

0:25.5

That problem you wish someone would solve.

0:28.2

Well, maybe that someone is you.

0:30.4

And maybe that problem you solve could turn into a billion dollar business.

0:35.4

Hi, I'm Jeff Brown and this is the Read to Lead podcast, the podcast dedicated

0:39.2

to your personal and professional growth, where each week I welcome another successful and

0:44.6

inspiring author, and we dig into his or her latest book and their unique insights on a number

0:49.1

of different topics. Today, we have the privilege of sitting down with Grubhub

0:52.8

founder, Mike Evans, author of a brand

0:55.4

new book out today called Hangary, a startup journey. I'll be asking Mike to share about the

1:01.2

journey to building and launching Grubhub, the process of developing a personal definition for

1:06.4

success and why it's so important, the goal-setting lessons he learned and how he used what

1:10.8

he discovered to grow his business again and again, and plenty more. Just last week, success and why it's so important, the goal-setting lessons he learned and how he used what he

1:10.8

discovered to grow his business again and again, and plenty more. Just last week, a number of people

1:15.9

on my email list took advantage of a special secret hashtag I shared that got them a hundred

1:21.8

bucks off my self-paced version of note-making mastery, my newest course, all about helping you better collect, connect,

1:30.0

crystallize, and create from your notes, ensuring that all those notes you take on all that

1:34.9

content you consume actually amounts to something. Otherwise, why bother with all of it in the

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