Marco Zappacosta

Marco Zappacosta (born 1985) is an American businessman. He co-founded Thumbtack and serves as the company's CEO.

Biography Zappacosta was born in Stanford, California, in 1985 and grew up in Atherton, California. His father is Pierluigi Zappacosta, an Italian businessman and electrical engineer who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s and co-founded the Swiss computer hardware manufacturer and software maker Logitech. He attended the nearby Saint Joseph's School or SJS through 1999, a feeder elementary school and associate to the historic Preparatory Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, 1999–2003.

Zappacosta attended Columbia University, graduating in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in political science. During college, Zappacosta was the director of Students for Saving Social Security (S4) in Washington, D.C., a group representing the student voice in the Social Security debate, with more than 10,000 student members in over 300 campus chapters nationwide.

He later came up with the idea of creating an online marketplace matching service providers and their customers. In 2008, he launched Thumbtack with two of his fellow S4 directors Jonathan Swanson and Jeremy Tunnell, as well as Sander Daniels.