Jonathan Swanson·Dec 30, 2022My 2022 Life ExperimentsI’ve been running life experiments for a number of years now in my never-ending quest for total and complete life optimization. 😉 😂A response icon2A response icon2
Jonathan Swanson·Feb 9, 2022How to scale your team from 10 to 100Scaling a team from 10 to 100 is one of the hardest transitions for founders. You need to answer questions like:
Jonathan Swanson·Dec 20, 2021My 2021 Life ExperimentsI’ve been running life experiments for a number of years now — but this year has many of my favorite experiments ever.A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·May 13, 2020Hiring 10x ExecsHiring execs is one of the highest leverage things you will do as a founder. It’s also the thing that founders most consistently mess up.A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·Jan 16, 2020My 2019 Life ExperimentsIn my 2017 and 2018 experiments I tried adding habits, such as new types of exercise, meditation, productivity, etc. For 2019 I decided to…A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·Jan 16, 2019Zero to $1B: 8 Lessons Scaling a StartupWe recently celebrated a decade (!) of building Thumbtack so I’m sharing a few hard-fought lessons from growing a startup to $1B.A response icon15A response icon15
Jonathan Swanson·Jan 16, 2019Email from the Stanford GSB Dean after I decided to start Thumbtack insteadA response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·Jan 2, 2019My 2018 Life ExperimentsIn 2018 I doubled down on my favorite experiments from the year before and also tried new experiments with delegation-by-voice, meditating…A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·Dec 27, 2017My 2017 Life ExperimentsIn the last year I tried new experiments with exercise, meditation, diet, digital consumption, and minimalism, the last of which entailed…A response icon3A response icon3
Jonathan Swanson·Feb 22, 2017Turning New Year’s Resolutions into New Year’s HabitsSet New Year’s Resolutions but struggling to follow through? I feel ya. Here’s what I did differently this year — and it’s working.A response icon1A response icon1