Author Archives: Chris

Food rules for startups: eight delicious ways to build a better company

February 23, 2012 – 6:09 pm

At Thumbtack, we make food a priority. It’s amazing what eating does to bring people together. Our team feels like a big family, and this is in large part due to the fact that we share most of our meals: four days a week we eat lunch together around a big table in the center [...]

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Visualization candy: the making of a realtime geo-dashboard

May 25, 2011 – 6:40 pm

“The most efficient graphic constructions are those in which any question, whatever its type and level, can be answered in a single instant of perception, that is, in a single image.”- Jacques Bertin, 1983, Semiology of Graphics Since Thumbtack’s inception, we have aimed to service every city, town, and neighborhood across the country. Unlike other [...]

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