We thought restaurants would pay for the ability to capture the attention of hungry people. (P4) Mike and I collected hundreds of menus around my Chicago neighborhood, and he wrote some code. That’s when I heard the screeching wheels in my head: Why wasn’t there something like this for food delivery? At the time, we were working on geographic lookup searches for rental real estate. We were frustrated by the lack of dinner options as well as the pain in the ass of calling restaurants and reading our credit cards. The eureka moment for GrubHub came when Mike and I were working as developers for. (P3) Innovation works best when there’s a problem to solve. And, if he gets his way, no one will ever have to phone for a pizza again. In April, Maloney, who is CEO of the combined company, led GrubHub to a successful IPO. It also merged with competitor Seamless (another Inc. 500 in 20, GrubHub hit $137 million in revenue in 2013. In 2004, he and co-worker Mike Evans launched GrubHub, an online food-ordering service, in Chicago. (P2) It was just another hungry late night at work, but Matt Maloney sensed an opportunity. (P1) GrubHub co-founder Matt Maloney took his Chicago food ordering service from scrappy startup to a public company worth $3 billion. How I Did It: Matt Maloney of GrubHub and Seamless
