Mike Ghaffary is a former founder who co-founded podcast app Stitcher and served as CEO of Eat24, leading it through its acquisition by Grubhub, before becoming a venture capital investor at Canvas Ventures. He uses a structured, playbook-like approach to evaluate online marketplaces based on specific metrics like frequency and take rate, and advocates for AI companies that create jobs for blue-collar workers and small businesses rather than just automating white-collar work. Mike Ghaffary is a former founder who co-founded podcast app Stitcher and served as CEO of Eat24, leading it through its acquisition by Grubhub, before becoming a venture capital investor at Canvas Ventures. He uses a structured, playbook-like approach to evaluate online marketplaces based on specific metrics like frequency and take rate, and advocates for AI companies that create jobs for blue-collar workers and small businesses rather than just automating white-collar work.