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Assembling an Executive Leadership Team is Daunting — Let Thumbtack’s CEO Help

CEO and Co-founder Marco Zappacosta launched Thumbtack after graduating college. Like most first-time founders, he wanted to reinvent everything. Since then, his company has changed how consumers connect to local professionals, with millions of projects completed across the United States since the company started in 2008. One of his proudest accomplishments, however, was not an innovation, but a