Jonathan Swanson has built two rare successes: Thumbtack, the home-services marketplace, and Athena, the fast-growing platform that pairs ambitious people with world-class personal assistants. Today he runs a 4,000-person company, invests on the side, and raises four kids — all by designing his life around leverage. a16z General Partner, Erik Torenberg, sits down with Jonathan to unpack what that actually looks like. They discuss how elite assistant culture shaped his philosophy, why delegation is a skill m ...

[Music] Hi everybody. Um she gave an introduction that maybe even I can't give. So firstly, thank you so much for having me.It is always an honor to be able to come to such platform and talk to young minds. Now let's quickly jump into it. So you all know about social media and the illusion it creates.Today I want to focus more on that and maybe give you a reality check as well. So what it looks like it's it looks like a very glamorous world with lot of perks and a lot of influencers are known to uh enjoy th ...

I think the most common way that I see hiring managers screw up hiring is over delegation which then is compounded by the fact that they have like muddy thinking. They don't know what they want and they haven't taken the time to like really sus that out. So then you think you're hiring a recruiter and it's the recruiter's job to like hire for you, but the recruiter doesn't really get what you want because you don't know what you want.And so the best hires will come from like super active involvement by the ...

Project Overview - StarkWare and the Starknet Foundation have launched staking delegation programs to decentralize Starknet [1] - The programs aim to secure the network through delegation [1] Call to Action - Application is open for both programs [1] - The industry encourages participation to help secure the network [1]