TaskRabbit
6 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Mar 19, 2018 by Leah Busque · said 42 times in 16 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (20), Leah Busque (9), Ann Miura-Ko (4), Paul English (2), Sam Blond (1), Michael Kim (1), Kyle Hill (1), Justin Caldbeck (1)
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2024 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: The Lyft Memo: Floodgate's Ann Miura Ko on Why Successful Seed Investing Is Not Investing In a Company But The Development of a Set of Secrets, Whether Capital Is a Defensible Moat Today &How Startups Should Approach Competition
- 20VC: The Memo: Sequoia's Alfred Lin on Why Chasing GMV Leads To Bad Behaviours, How To Approach Competition and Capital Efficiency & The Core Importance of Understanding the Difference Between Input and Output Metrics
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 27 mentions in 5 episodes 5 per episode
- 20VC: Finding VC Partners That Look Beyond The Numbers, The Black Box of VC Secrets That Needs To Be Shared & The 1,000 Reasons A VC Won't Invest In You When It Has Nothing To Do With You with Leah Busque, General Partner @ Fuel Capital
- 20VC: Thumbtack's Marco Zappacosta on The 3 Core Elements To All Board Meetings, Raising $250m from Sequoia and Why You Have To Win Supply Side Acquisition First For Marketplace Success
- 20VC: From Sequoia To Accel To General Catalyst: What Makes The Best Board Member & The Hiring Methodology To Attract World Class Talent with KAYAK & Lola Founder, Paul English
- 20VC: Lessons From Scaling Trulia to IPO, How To Maximise Your Impact within Your Organisation and Why No One Is Ever 100% Ready For The Next Job with Heather Fernandez, Founder @ CEO @ Solv
- 20VC: Why VCs Are Wrong About Single Founders, The Benefits of Party Rounds At Seed and How To Pre-Game Your Launch To Have Customers From Day 1 with Amanda Bradford, Founder & CEO @ The League
- every mention in 2018, scene by scene →
2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Why Valuation Is Of Critical Importance At Seed, How To Understand Innovation Cycles & Having 3 CEOs and Burning $10m a Month with Lee Hower, Co-Founder @ NextView Ventures
- 20VC: Why Venture Is A Service Product? Why There Is No Such Thing As Product Market Fit & Why Startups Need To Be More Design Orientated with Ben Blumenfeld, Co-Founder & General Partner @ Designer Fund
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: The 4 Required Powers For A Startup To Be A $500m Business with "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups", Ann Miura Ko, Co-Founder @ Floodgate
- 20VC: Binary's Justin Caldbeck on Specialisation Being Key To Success In VC, The Biggest Problem In VC Today and Why The Future Is A Moneyless Barter Economy
- 20VC: Why Every Employee Should Re-Apply For Their Job Every Year & The Strategies To Prepare For A Successful Fundraise with Kyle Hill, Founder & CEO @ HomeHero
- 20VC: What It Takes To Raise A VC Fund & Investing in First Time Fund Managers with Michael Kim @ Cendana Capital
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
Everything said about TaskRabbit, oldest first
Mar 19, 2018 positive
Mar 19, 2018
Apr 20, 2018 negative
Zappacosta: TaskRabbit's commodification of labor drove low supply-side NPS
“I think TaskRabbit's challenge is that it commodified the labor side of the platform, and therefore its main offer to the customer was speed and low prices. And in that sense, Yeah, it's going to have a low MPS on the supply side.”
Apr 26, 2019
Rogier validated MasterClass demand using a fake website with 100 courses
“So what I decided to do was I created a fake website that had a hundred different online classes that I did not have. I paid a firm in Argentina, I think like I actually helped build the site. I hired some people on TaskRabbit to help write the class text inst…”
Jan 27, 2021 negative
Sequoia Passed on Grubhub, Caviar, Postmates, and TaskRabbit
“And actually, between 20 11 and 20 13, we evaluated opportunities to invest in Grubhub, in Caviar, in Postmates, in TaskRabbit, because I was fascinated with this space. We passed on each of those opportunities, not partly because we're somewhat concerned abou…”
Apr 12, 2024
Blond: Brex Hired TaskRabbits to Hand Out $4 SaaStr Breakfast Burritos
“We show up, we had task rabbits outside of the event in Brex t-shirts handing out Brexfist burritos to every single person that walked in the venue. So the first experience that they have at Sastra is they get a Brex burrito on when they walk in. Four bucks a …”