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Matt Maloney and Mike Evans
Founders, GrubHub.com
Wisdom says if you want a tech geek to help you out, you should buy them some Chinese takeout. So, of course two software engineers, Maloney and Evans, who no doubt spent many a late night coding until they were famished, would eventually lament that there was no good centralized place to find all of Chicago’s food delivery options and menus. Founded in 2004 when the two worked at Apartments.com, GrubHub is now in thirteen markets across the country, was slated to do seventy-million dollars in food-delivery orders in 2010 and was named to Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing companies.