
Hangry
A Startup Journey
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Mike Evans
About this listen
GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he grew a multibillion-dollar behemoth that changed the way we eat.
Hungry and tired one night, Mike wanted a pizza, but getting a pizza delivered was a pain in the neck. He didn’t want to call a million restaurants to see what was open. So, as an avid coder, he created GrubHub in his spare bedroom to figure out who delivered to his apartment. Then, armed with a $140 check from his first customer and ignoring his crushing college debt, he quit his job. Over the next decade, Mike grew his little delivery guide into the world’s premier online ordering website. In doing so, he entered the company of an elite few entrepreneurs to take a startup from an idea all the way to an IPO.
GrubHub’s journey from Mike’s bedroom to Wall Street doesn’t fit into how business schools teach entrepreneurship. In Hangry, he details step-by-step the grind of building an innovative business, with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups that Mike learned on the fly as he piloted GrubHub by the seat of his pants. Hangry reveals a decade of eighty-hour work weeks, detailed steps of how Mike garnered his first customers, his hunt for financing dollars, cliffhanger acquisitions, the near collapse of his marriage, a brutally difficult merger, and a pair of tumultuous quit/unquit moments, all to steer the company to become one of the most successful startups in the world. With a razor-sharp wit, Mike reveals hard-won truths about how startups succeed—and even harder-won truths about how startups fail.
Shocking everyone, at the pinnacle of startup success, Mike leaves it all behind, quitting the company he started to bike across the United States in search of balance. But eventually, the grand vistas of America bring the lessons of the past into focus, driving the realization that for entrepreneurs a hunger for success doesn’t end, and he starts another company, even more ambitious than the first.
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Critic reviews
"In one of the truest portrayals of startup life I've ever read, Hangry lays out the painful-but-true story of the founding of GrubHub. But unlike most self-aggrandizing and chest-pounding entrepreneurial memoirs, company founder Mike Evans is brutally honest about how it really went down; the uncertainty, the disappointments, and his continuous struggle to keep a growing company true to its original vision. But it is more than just a business book—it's a personal journey as well. Hangry is right up there with ShoeDog for being one of the most honest and vulnerable depictions of what really goes into building a business."—Marc Randolph, co-founder of Netflix and author of That Will Never Work
“Mike Evans changed the way we eat dinner, and in Hangry, he shows us that it’s possible to transform a passion into a massive success. Mike’s riveting story shares the exciting highs and brutal lows of building a company from scratch. This is one of the most enjoyable and informative business books I’ve ever read.”—Ryan Serhant, star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and National Bestselling author of Sell It Like Serhant
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- Daniel
- 07-28-24
More than just a business story
I was pleasantly surprised by how "Hangry" covers much more than just the business journey of Grubhub. While the book details Grubhub's trials and tribulations in a fascinating and educational manner, I found Mike's reflections and personal evolution through his trans-American cycling trip even more compelling. As a startup founder, I found the book holistically gratifying and reassuring, as it underscores that the entrepreneurial journey is never a straightforward path.
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- seth Weiss
- 11-02-22
A reminder of why I am a business owner
I worked for Grubhub from 2011-2014 and this was as much a walk down memory lane as it was a reminder of why I wanted to own my own business in the first place.
Thank you Mike for changing my life back in 2011 by letting me join you on the Grubhub journey.
Also I worked like a DOG in rain, heat and snow in Brooklyn to be better then Seamless back before the merger.
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- Jessica K.
- 07-17-23
Good read
Informative and a good reminder about why I’m an entrepreneur. It was just the message I needed to hear.
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- D. Gandy
- 11-15-22
Spectacular book
Outstandingly well written book with a shocking amount of transparency in the details. A must for any startup founder.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-10-23
Great Book
Fantastic personal story, great narration, a real, down-to-earth account of building of one of the most iconic tech companies coming from Chicago.
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- MikeOlsen_me
- 01-12-23
Great Book with a Twist
The bike ride resonated. The business story was great.
It wasn’t about the bike. It was less about the business. It’s both about the lessons learned about humans along the way.
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- Casey
- 03-02-23
Fantastic listen. Definitely go with audiobook.
This book was so good I would re-organize my day just to make more time to listen to it. This is also one of the books that you must listen to instead of read, because the author narrates it so well. Favorite book in quite a while for me.
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- BChicago
- 01-12-24
Wonderful - interesting, insightful & enjoyable
Very well written and well read book. Mike Evans is honest and frank about the founding and growth of GrubHub (a great story), which he's interspersed his post GrubHub bike ride across the US. I loved it
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- Travis L. Chase
- 01-08-23
A wonderful founders journey from idea to Wall Street
A great story from a great founder. Learn how the journey from an idea finds its way to Wall Street with all the bumps along the way.
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- Marjorie Morales
- 01-11-23
FANTABULOUS!
Mike’s journey in words was as encaptivating as his startup to IPO. Listening to the story in his own voice added a great connection to the adventure. There were so many great moments, like how he let his hunger and anger guide him into a whole new world of pizza and millions and millions of dollars or when the dogs were chasing him at the beginning of his bike ride (I might’ve cheered for the dogs). My favorite part was at the very end when he met up with his British bike pals, Paul and Terry, I could feel the overwhelming emotions of the journey culminating into a moment of peace. Thank you for sharing your stories and looking forward to your next adventures!
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