Matt Maloney thought the day his company went public would be one big celebration, but that didn’t turn out to be the case.
He walked into the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of April 4 to ring the bell and watch as GrubHub, the online food delivery business he cofounded a decade earlier, officially became a public company. There were some festivities put on for the company by the stock exchange, but soon enough he flew back to Chicago where GrubHub is based to return to the work of growing a company.
“If you’d asked me three months prior to the IPO or a year prior to the IPO, I probably would have had a different set of expectations post bell ringing,” Maloney, CEO of GrubHub, told Mashable in a recent interview“But when it actually comes around, you’re tired and you want to move onto the next challenge.” Read more…
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