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S9 E14: The DoorDash for Home Services: Overthrowing Legacy Service Friction and Engineering On-Demand Residential Maintenance Infrastructure with Mike Bifulco, Co-Founder & CTO of Craftwork
Mar 5, 2024 · Season 9 · Episode 14 · 30 min
Hiring painters without the heartburn
Mike Bifulco studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in college. He was always good with computers, dating back to his High School Freshman CS classs. Coming out of school, he applied to 300 entry level jobs, interviewed for 15 of them, received offers for 3 - and turned them all down to start his own company. Outside of tech, he is into road cycling and enjoys the ritual, science and community around making - and enjoying - a good cup of coffee or espresso. He's also a musician, adding to the growing list of successful tech entrepreneurs who also are talented musicians.
Post looking for his next gig, Mike and his co-founders started to realize that the bar is very low for painting companies. It is a business that has not caught up to modern tech, so they started to think - how do we make a business thats like DoorDash for your home painting needs?
This is the creation story of Craftwork.
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