Jonathan SwansonMy 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. 😉 😂10 min read·Dec 30, 2022--2--2
Jonathan SwansonHow 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:8 min read·Feb 9, 2022----
Jonathan SwansonMy 2021 Life ExperimentsI’ve been running life experiments for a number of years now — but this year has many of my favorite experiments ever.8 min read·Dec 20, 2021--3--3
Jonathan SwansonHiring 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.3 min read·May 13, 2020--3--3
Jonathan SwansonMy 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…9 min read·Jan 16, 2020--3--3
Jonathan SwansonZero 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.11 min read·Jan 16, 2019--15--15
Jonathan SwansonEmail from the Stanford GSB Dean after I decided to start Thumbtack instead1 min read·Jan 16, 2019--3--3
Jonathan SwansonMy 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…7 min read·Jan 2, 2019--3--3
Jonathan SwansonMy 2017 Life ExperimentsIn the last year I tried new experiments with exercise, meditation, diet, digital consumption, and minimalism, the last of which entailed…6 min read·Dec 27, 2017--4--4
Jonathan SwansonTurning 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.2 min read·Feb 22, 2017--1--1