Marco Zappacosta is the Co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, the leading online marketplace for local services. Thumbtack is a new way to hire local services. Instead of wasting time searching, browsing and playing phone tag, just tell us what you need. Thumbtack delivers multiple quotes from our network of vetted pros within 24 hours. We can help you maintain your home, plan your events, learn new skills, improve your wellness and more across all 50 states. By connecting local professionals directly with new clients, we're empowering more than 250,000 talented pros to grow their businesses. Marco is driven by Thumbtack’s mission: to make it dramatically easier to hire services, at the same time empowering independent professionals to grow their businesses. He started Thumbtack after graduating from Columbia University, where he majored in political science and fell one class shy of another degree in neuroscience.