It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. Grubhub had changed. And you talk a lot about, in the book, how it got away from you a little bit.
he kept these wonderful notebooks, or he wrote a lot of his own ideas as well as borrowing quotes and things and doing sketches and stuff like that. We have all these notebooks. So, Gruber went back and read through all these notebooks; they're all chronologically organized very clearly, and what he found was there is, in fact, a moment of excitement in late October of 1838, when Darwin is reading Malthus. There are a lot of exclamation points that night and he's all excited. But, what Gruber found was, in fact, there are many, many passages
So Lightspeed has been investing, gosh, for a decade or more in incredible marketplaces, like Grubhub on the consumer side, like Faire on the SMB side, really helping all the many, many small shops and boutiques in this country to be able to source the very best products.
drink and he has been latched onto by a seemingly grubby well-spoken full of uh platitudinous uh anecdotes really in order to get a drink
As it happens, They go really well together with a little bit of aniseed herb, like a bit of basil or torn tarragon in there. It was called Eat Grub .
with coworkers at work. He was kind of grubby, and dirty, and naughty, but he was running around in all the churches and seeing great art-- that's exposure--
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. And at Grubhub, what that would mean is if the Thai iced coffee was missing, we would say, I'm sorry.
And he persuaded himself that he could see, if you had a candle, you could see phlogiston or elemental fire being released by the candle. We're quite happy grubbing away in our own laboratory and our in front of our own computer scientists.
But she came back and was like, oh, I'm sorry, did you think I wasn't still Martha Stewart? So we were ordering from Grub Hub every single night.
Chinese food from last night. Many of you might know Grubhub, having ordered from them. He's also one of the very few individuals that I've known who has actually ridden across the country coast to coast, east to west.
Let me start with a very, very easy and fun first question, though it could also be very hard depending on who your friends are in Chicago. You got your start with Grubhub by going to all these restaurants in Chicago and eating pizza. So what is your current today most favorite Chicago pizza restaurant?
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. And I didn't see that Grubhub or the new competitors that were showing up-- DoorDash, and Uber Eats--
space and then put things on the on the on the cube in various places so in this find I just get it without any grubby trial and error no erasers no false
And he had a brilliant idea, and the idea was principally that the bike folded around the rear wheel, and you encapsulated all the grubby bits in the middle. That was the basic idea.
That's the standard route is to write short stories, to try to get them published or win some awards or do some residencies. There are all these great writing centers-- GrubStreet in Boston, there's Bread Loaf. There's a lot of different residencies and programs you can apply to.
And then, they come back going like this, in their hands, right? Because it was a bit dark and grubby and sweaty, okay?
But it's hard to really know-- despite all the resources out there, it's hard to know what it takes to produce a book if you're doing it all for the first time. I did want to put in a word about Grub Street.
And this is all very interesting, because it all found its way once again into "The Times" newspaper. So not only were they running this splendid rather grubby looking photo, but they were also running a nice little article called "The Mechanical Brain." There you are. You can see from Saturday, the 11th of June 1949.
murdered by a neighboring tribe and his family rejected by his own group his mother raising six children two of whom were by her husband's Junior wife had been reduced to grubbing for roots to survive the family had been literally down and out yet temoin as the eldest son of a tribal ruler was a Potential Threat and often in danger as a boy he
But she has to keep it alive for the whole period that her wasp grub is feeding on the still-living cockroach.
This is my first toy, named Grub .
But I'll leave those of you who haven't read his book yet to find out what exactly was going on behind the scenes. It's interesting. As you were getting Grubhub going after work in the middle of the late nights that you had, there's this one theme that kept coming up for me. There are no silver bullets, right?
I think people feel they are being called slightly cheap if they take a grubby pound coin.
I play Ralph. I'm Jordan Grubb.
at rigorous academic prose, the grubbier work of Greil Marcus-- I understand he just spoke here-- whose book "Lipstick Traces" took seriously
And to that extent, that grubby old social Darwinist line about how the survival of the fittest in the economy has
A very eclectic menu, so not for the typical pub grub approach.
I head up a team at Google called Food for Good. I am so excited today to bring Mike Evans to "Talks at Google." Mike Evans is the founder of Grubhub, from which I ordered Chinese food from last night.
Or not just doing the things that we love doing, and also doing the suite of things that have impact on the broader business and the broader organization. On that note, I know that as Grubhub scaled-- pretty quickly at a few points-- you brought on Matt. You brought on Matt, who was working with you at Classified.
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. Yeah, I talk about this in the book because the thing that allowed Grubhub to really beat all the competition on the way to the IPO
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. The second storyline that's woven into "Hangry" and why I love the book so much is alongside the story of you building Grubhub,
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. Oh, my God. Let's come back to Grubhub for a little bit.
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. your investors are, how long you would stay with Grubhub after the IPO-- but also, even while you were on the cycling trip,
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. Yeah. Let's talk a little bit about you choosing to leave Grubhub the week after the IPO.
But I warrant to you that not a single one of my dollar-- I was going to say grubbing-- my dollar-accumulating Wall Street friends
for another two months before Darwin actually starts writing about his theory as this thing and he has to then figure out what he has to do with it, which he spends, of course, 20 more years trying to figure out. And so, Gruber's point is if you try and pinpoint the exact moment that Darwin has the idea, you can't do it; that you can say pretty confidently from the notebooks that he doesn't have it three months before the epiphany and he clearly, fully has it two months after. But when you try and get more precise in that, it's actually
Every place in Europe has the daily special. The Blue Plate special, the doggen schwet, the plat du jour, pub grub , the pre-dinner.
And that's-- we kind of be like, yeah, I called Grubhub and I sent over some chicken wings from Wingstop to your house and.
It didn't matter. This is a lesson I learned when I left for six weeks. So what you're saying is before we decide to quit something, we should order some food from Grubhub so that we're not hangry while we're rage-quitting, right?
He could fix computers, but he was disorganized, forgetting to do his assignments for Mrs. English class, whereas I was meticulous, a grade grubber.
Last year, Gale and Seigel did a list of their top disruptor brands, and same kind of list-- Uber and GrubHub and Airbnb and Spotify and Ally.
And it's one that many of us miss, because-- I don't know-- anyone here ever think about working at like Open Table or Grubhub or TripAdvisor
Besides, if companies do succeed in attracting more women and minorities, the stereotypes will change, as will, presumably, the grubby decor.
Of course, as I'm reading this to you, I realize that this is the least grubby decor that I have ever seen in my life.
So rather than assume, as some of those schools are, that money subverts values, that talking about it leads to the creation of money grubbing children,
What Darwin showed us is we don't need the intelligent designer that lots of bottom up, mindless grubbing around, trial and error, will eventually produce all the
And then since then, obviously, many of you who will be familiar with, I guess, GrubHub in the States or Just-Eat here or Delivery Hero--
cynical, predatory, lopsided, and shameless money grubbing copyright laws written by any society anywhere in the universe since the dawn of Time itself."
low barrier. Look at the big companies in Chicago, Groupon, StubHub, GrubHub, sorry.
And for a hundred years that was the canonical story of the roots of evolutionary theory. But about 20, 25 year ago, a really interesting scholar named Howard Gruber went back and read through all of Darwin's notebooks from this period. And Darwin kept these wonderful notebooks which were called in that period "The Commonplace Books." And the whole genre of "The Commonplace Book" is very interesting. Many Commonplace Books, which were crucial