Hangry A Startup Journey
Hangry A Startup Journey by Mike Evans, published by Hachette Books in 2022, presents an insightful narrative of the author’s journey in founding GrubHub, a transformative force in the food delivery industry. This edition spans 258 pages and is written in English. The book chronicles Mike’s evolution from a frustrated customer seeking pizza delivery to the creator of a multibillion-dollar enterprise, detailing the challenges and triumphs he faced along the way.
Readers will find a candid exploration of entrepreneurship, as Mike shares the realities of building a startup, including the intense work ethic required and the lessons learned through both successes and setbacks. Hangry delves into the intricacies of business development, financing, and the personal toll that such a journey can take, including the impact on relationships. The narrative not only highlights the innovative strategies that propelled GrubHub to success but also reflects on the ongoing hunger for achievement that drives entrepreneurs to pursue new ventures.
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GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion-dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat.
Hungry and tired one night, Mike wanted a pizza, but getting a pizza delivered was a pain in the neck. He didn’t want to call a million restaurants to see what was open. So, as an avid coder, he created GrubHub in his spare bedroom to figure out who delivered to his apartment. Then, armed with a $140 check from his first customer and ignoring his crushing college debt, he quit his job. Over the next decade, Mike grew his little delivery guide into the world’s premier online ordering website. In doing so, he entered the company of an elite few entrepreneurs to take a startup from an idea all the way to an IPO.
GrubHub’s journey from Mike’s bedroom to Wall Street doesn’t fit into how business schools teach entrepreneurship. In Hangry, he details step-by-step the grind of building an innovative business, with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups that Mike learned on the fly as he piloted GrubHub by the seat of his pants. Hangry reveals a decade of eighty-hour work weeks, detailed steps of how Mike garnered his first customers, his hunt for financing dollars, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse of his marriage, a brutally difficult merger, and a pair of tumultuous quit/unquit moments, all to steer the company to become one of the most successful startups in the world. With a razor-sharp wit, Mike reveals hard-won truths about how startups succeed–and even harder-won truths about how startups fail.
Shocking everyone, at the pinnacle of startup success, Mike leaves it all behind, quitting the company he started to bike across the United States in search of balance. But eventually, the grand vistas of America bring the lessons of the past into focus, driving the realization that for entrepreneurs a hunger for success doesn’t end, and he starts another company, even more ambitious than the first.
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