Hardware Podcasts

TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan

How I Built This · 11 Jul 2022 · 1h 15m

What this episode covers

Leah Solivan, founder of TaskRabbit, explains how a snowy night in Boston inspired her to build a peer-to-peer errand service by leveraging the convergence of mobile, location services, and social media. She details the early engineering challenges, the pivot from a bidding model to a fixed-price 'Book It' model, and the difficult decision to bring in an outside CEO, Eric Gross, which ultimately led to her returning to lead the company through a major restructuring. Solivan also discusses the strategic partnership with IKEA that paved the way for TaskRabbit's acquisition in 2017.

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founders before launch, early-stage companies and companies scaling up

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Companies
IBM, ZipCar, Facebook, IKEA, Uber, Shasta Ventures, LightSpeed, Floodgate, Baseline Ventures, GoDaddy, Craigslist
Products
TaskRabbit
Also
Tim Ferriss, Scott Griffith, Eric Gross, Kevin, Brian Leonard, Todd, Ann Marico, Steve Anderson, John Zimmer

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