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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where TaskRabbit comes up on How I Built This, 20VC, In Depth, the Official SaaStr Podcast, Top Founders
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 33:28 Axel Backlund And then what it did was sign up on TaskRabbit, both as a task
Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
- ▶ 41:27 Shawn Wang I mean, it's Fiverr, it's TaskRabbit.
The Future of Software Creation with Replit CEO Amjad Masad · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:31 Amjad Masad For example, if it hits a CAPTCHA and it doesn't know how to solve a CAPTCHA, it should go and TaskRabbit and ask a human to go solve the CAPTCHA for it.
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:13 Brett Berson Back when he was the co-founder of TaskRabbit, Kevin noticed something concerning.
- ▶ 3:04 Kevin Busque I was still at TaskRabbit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 Brett Berson One of the key stakeholders in observing the problem when you were building TaskRabbit. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:29 Kevin Busque At least, at least I did at TaskRabbit.
- ▶ 19:44 unnamed speaker So in the end, the asset base fee for task rabbit early on was 1.67% or 167 basis points.
- ▶ 22:28 Kevin Busque I'm going to leave TaskRabbit and this is going to be a thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Kevin Busque We had cupcake makers in San Francisco from bakeries that we were using at, you know, TaskRabbit that I knew about, that I talked to.
- ▶ 31:17 Kevin Busque And that's what the payroll company and thinking back to my TaskRabbit experience, that's what I did. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:00 Kevin Busque The blueprint was the regulation as like completely opposite to TaskRabbit, where it was kind of the wild west. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 Brett Berson So is that started to give you confidence if at TaskRabbit you were in the thirties and all of a sudden you were in the eighties, that was an early sort of. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:24 Brett Berson TaskRabbit from day zero. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:43 Brett Berson Something you didn't mention, you obviously weren't the CEO of TaskRabbit and you are the founder and co-founder and CEO of 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:20 Kevin Busque It's the same problem we had at TaskRabbit where it's like, we could do this one thing really well.
How to Win by Being Right and Contrarian: Lessons from Zappos to DoorDash
- ▶ 2:02:55 Alfred Lin And even more broadly than that, there was TaskRabbit, where you can run errands. 2 times in the scene
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21:49 Ben Gilbert I will say, a thing that illustrates every point we've been making on this episode really, really well is, so they bought TaskRabbit for a small amount, 50 to seventy-five million, somewhere in there, a few years ago.
- ▶ 2:22:03 Ben Gilbert And I checked the little box, like, provide me an estimate of what it would cost for a TaskRabbit to come to my house and assemble all this stuff.
- ▶ 2:43:07 Ben Gilbert I assume that basically means TaskRabbit.
How the US is SABOTAGING Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway
- ▶ 1:05:32 Scott Galloway I don't care if you're a Lyft driver, a tasker, task grabber, whatever they call it, you're gonna start figuring, if you go to a construction site, and you have any skills at all, you can start at about 20 bucks an hour.
Advice Line: Reaching New Customers
- ▶ 1:46 Guy Raz Our first guest today is Leah Sullivan, the founder of TaskRabbit, the online marketplace for services like cleaning, building furniture, running errands, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:17 Leah Solivan I mean, it is sort of, this is much higher stakes, but it is sort of reminiscent when we were first launching TaskRabbit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:30 Guy Raz Hey, thanks so much for listening to this special mashup edition of The Advice Line this week, and a special thanks to Leah Sullivan of TaskRabbit, Scott and Allie Svensson of Mod Pizza, and Holly Thaggard of Supergoop for joining me on…
The guy who gets paid $80K/yr to do nothing
- ▶ 17:29 Shaan Puri And this was a Silicon Valley startup that was basically like you pay for, you pay for a, basically like a task rabbit specifically to help
How marketplaces win: Liquidity, growth levers, quality, more | Benjamin Lauzier (Lyft, Thumbtack)
- ▶ 13:18 Lenny Rachitsky They had just like so many people also TaskRabbit is the one I know about where they had so many people wanting to be Taskers, whatever they call them. 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Leah Solivan of Taskrabbit
- ▶ 1:07 Guy Raz She's the founder of TaskRabbit, the online marketplace for services like cleaning, assembling furniture, running errands, and a whole lot more. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is TaskRabbit founder, Leah Sullivan.
- ▶ 34:01 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking calls with Leah Sullivan, the founder of the company TaskRabbit.
- ▶ 46:46 Guy Raz Leah Sullivan, founder of TaskRabbit, thank you so much for coming back onto the show.
Sam Blond: Why Startups are Doing Outbound Wrong and How to Fix It | E1139 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dear Diary: Lenses in Life, The Idea Maze, Messy Middle
- ▶ 13:08 Alex Lieberman Uh, TaskRabbit has basically taken every American who wants to be a gig economy worker or monetize kind of their skills, but it's all been done within manual labor.
How to Grow Revenue Faster in the Second Half of 2023 with Founders Fund
The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
- ▶ 22:40 Salim Ismail So you have companies like gig walk and task rabbit and fiber and all of these that are now offering platforms for folks to
The Carbon Copy: The great electrician shortage
- ▶ 20:03 David Pitt At one point, when I was just working various cash gigs, I was doing TaskRabbit, and I was tutoring people and just things I could get quick cash, uh, and I would just travel and was kind of a, a kind of a bum in my mid-twenties.
The great electrician shortage
- ▶ 14:12 David Pitt At one point, when I was just working various cash gigs, I was doing TaskRabbit, and I was tutoring people and just things I could get quick cash, uh, and I would just travel and was kind of a, a kind of a bum in my mid-twenties.
SaaStr CRO Confidential: Founders Fund Partner Sam Blond + Divvy CRO Sterling Snow
Lessons from one of the world’s top executive recruiters | Lauren Ipsen (Daversa Partners, GC)
- ▶ 6:24 Lauren Ipsen Was doing a lot of work with Twitter and Reddit and TaskRabbit and Nextdoor, Postmates, you name it.
Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)
- ▶ 21:21 Jason Shah When I went to Yammer, I also interviewed with kind of, this was the era of like TaskRabbit.
TaskRabbit: Leah Solivan
- ▶ 0:51 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how a hungry hundred-pound dog on a snowy night inspired Leah Sullivan to launch TaskRabbit, a service that will take care of your errands. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:13 Leah Solivan In high school, I dated someone who eventually became my husband, who I started TaskRabbit with, Kevin.
- ▶ 11:30 Leah Solivan Um, but yeah, that was back in 2006, 2007, and so, um, I also built a dog walking site for our dog walker so that he could expand his business, and then I started building dog walking sites for all of his dog walking friends, and, and then…
- ▶ 11:51 Guy Raz I mean, what, how did the TaskRabbit, what would become TaskRabbit, how did that idea first come to you?
- ▶ 17:59 Leah Solivan Yes, and I, I've always said I am not the first person who had the idea for TaskRabbit.
- ▶ 21:18 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Halia taps into Craigslist and her local coffee shop to launch Run My Errant, just in time for the onset of the global financial crisis.
- ▶ 26:17 Leah Solivan That runmyarn.com was open to them and them alone.
- ▶ 31:08 Leah Solivan And I kind of, I pitched the guy there the story about run my errands starting and how I'm opening it up. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:31 Guy Raz But from, from what I've read, like, in order to attract more users, right, to run my errand, you, you tried a bunch of different interesting strategies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:43 Leah Solivan Even at scale with TaskRabbit, Boston was like number 10 market. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:32 Leah Solivan So I had read Four Hour Workweek, and particularly as it related to RunMyAaron.com, I thought, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:21 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, how Leah proves that Run My Errand is indeed a real business, but how when she's really ready to scale it, she realizes she has the wrong team at the wrong time.
- ▶ 47:55 Guy Raz So it's the summer of 2010 and Leah and her husband Kevin decide to move to San Francisco so she can relaunch Run My Errand from there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:08 Guy Raz Now, meantime, there's no way that TaskRabbit is profitable because most startups are not profitable for a long time. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:11 Guy Raz There were people who liked it because they could, you know, haggle over a price and, and even some of the, the, the, the, the task rabbit, what were they called? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:10 Guy Raz TaskRabbit, it became, in my mind, I remember, it's like, oh, you just, just get a TaskRabbit person to do it if you don't have time. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:19 Guy Raz Do you feel, I mean, you're, you know, five years plus removed from TaskRabbit now. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:02 Guy Raz In fact, a while back, after TaskRabbit went fully remote, Leah heard that they had to get rid of the eight-foot wooden logo that used to hang outside the office.
Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02)
- ▶ 7:54 Stephen McKeon They had become known as a peer-to-peer investor in the context of web two, firms like Lyft and TaskRabbit and Quora and Reddit, things that were facilitating peer-to-peer interaction.
She saved equity, used dev shop for new PropTech SaaS, breaks $1m in revenue
- ▶ 3:44 Nathan Latka And so what, I mean, I see Starbucks, Amazon, Target, TaskRabbit in your UI and on your website.
3 Profitable Business Ideas You Should Start in 2022
The NSFW Framework & the Magic of Community-Product Fit with Amanda Goetz | Where It Happens
- ▶ 43:40 Amanda Goetz And so I hired like a person, like a task rabbit to literally go through, put all those names in a spreadsheet.
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
- ▶ 3:30 Ann Miura-Ko The way we met John and Logan was that Leah Buskey, who's the founder of TaskRabbit, had been in the Facebook incubator or accelerator at the same time as John and Logan.
How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205
- ▶ 4:41 Shaan Puri Uh, so it's sort of like there's a TaskRabbit essentially that'll go buy the lottery ticket in person for you. 2 times in the scene
Meet The HIBT Fellows: Kaitlin McGreyes & Nicole Argüelles
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
- ▶ 4:42 Alfred Lin 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.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
Lessons from Hired CEO: How to Move from Transactional to Recurring Revenue
- ▶ 3:41 Mehul Patel So if you look at some of the names up there, Lyft, uh, Uber, Tosk Rabbit, um, and Hired have all launched subscription businesses.
Gamers are Entering a New Era of Monetization
- ▶ 14:27 Kevin Chou Imagine that there's something like a TaskRabbit where you can go find another player and hire them to help you do that high-level dungeon or form a party in a game.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:09 Eric Migicovsky Uh, the founder of TaskRabbit was just speaking last night, and she was talking about how, like, different, like, at first, every single, um, every, like, TaskRabbit you could just do anything with. 2 times in the scene
1566 How This Thumbtack Competitor Hopes to Win with $50k in GMV Last 12 Months
- ▶ 1:12 Tariq Khribech So despite the fact that the company is like Andrew's List, Home Advisors, and TaskRabbit, 90% of people say you is word of mouth to find help. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:58 Tariq Khribech I wanted to get someone to clean my house through TaskRabbit, and they were charging me around 430 bucks.
Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup · Y Combinator
Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit
- ▶ 0:01 unnamed speaker Please welcome Leah Buskey, TaskRabbit founder and Fuel Capital general partner. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:44 Leah Busque Um, so, what you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:11 Leah Busque Now, I'll tell you a story at TaskRabbit. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:06 Leah Busque So in the early days of TaskRabbit, say you needed your dry cleaning picked up. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:33 Leah Busque Now, I knew at TaskRabbit from very early on that we would be successful. 2 times in the scene
1379 Live Video for Consumer Brands like Pottery Barn Passes $3m in ARR
- ▶ 12:14 Fritz Brumder That could scale very quickly, like a TaskRabbit type of thing, and, um,
20VC: Why Startup Founders Have One Core Job, How To Reduce Risk & Increase Probability In Your Startup & Why You Should Not Send A Pitch Deck Pre-Investor Meeting with David Rogier, Founder & CEO @ Masterclass
- ▶ 16:29 David Rogier I hired some people on TaskRabbit to help write the class text instructions, and I bought ad traffic to see if people would actually try to buy the class.
1308 Salesforce for Lawyers Passes $3m in ARR, Basically Bootstrapped
- ▶ 3:39 Michael Chasen Essentially what LawKick was was kind of like an oDesk or a task rabbit for law firms.
a16z Podcast | Getting That First Board Seat
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker Our guest today is Stacy Brown Philpott, the chief operating officer of TaskRabbit.
- ▶ 1:05 Matt Levy You are the COO of TaskRabbit, uh, former, uh, operator at Google, former EIR at Google Ventures, and the newest board member at HP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:30 Stacy Brown-Philpott TaskRabbit for two and a half years, and you know, we're really bridging the gap between online and offline. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Matt Levy So you're coming from Google, which is, you know, one of the biggest, you know, companies on the, on the internet, like the operations are wildly, uh, you know, uh, outsized compared to TaskRabbit. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:52 Matt Levy Good luck on the board at HP, and obviously at TaskRabbit.
a16z Podcast | The End of Ownership
- ▶ 34:04 Balaji Srinivasan We've actually seen a lot of pitches for companies that are abstracting out that, you know, reputation from Airbnb, Lyft, TaskRabbit, et cetera, into kind of like a new report card, um, you know, like a, like a portable reputation score.
a16z Podcast | People Marketplaces Take On One of the Last Great E-Commerce Opportunities: Groceries
- ▶ 11:45 Jeff Jordan Early in people marketplaces, you had the horizontals of TaskRabbit or Zarli, where you could ask people to do anything, and the paradox of choice and the lack of optimization against specific verticals, no one knew what to do with it, so…
What's Next for Marketplace Startups
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
- ▶ 14:12 Harry Stebbings We had Leah at TaskRabbit on, and she said that one side of the equation will always be less content.
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
- ▶ 17:49 Harry Stebbings But, but speaking of that, it makes me think about MPS, and we had Leah from TaskRabbit and Fuel Capital on the show the other day, and she suggested that with marketplaces, which in some case, you know, the league is, to a certain extent,…
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
- ▶ 9:44 Paul English And during my Uber ride, I'm going back and forth on my phone, and someone reached out to me, believe it or not, on TaskRabbit, and there's a woman who did a task to me like a year ago, and I vaguely remember, I never met her in person,… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 20:04 Harry Stebbings And then the final question is from Aliyah Busky at TaskRabbit, or formerly of TaskRabbit, who said that with marketplaces, your NPS is always going to be bad on one side of the equation. 3 times in the scene
Stitch Fix: Katrina Lake
- ▶ 26:06 Katrina Lake PayPal requests you for 20 dollars, you'd give me 20 dollars, and then I would send you a shipment of five items, and inside there was like a paper return survey, because we still didn't have a website, and so it was a piece of paper that… 2 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 0:36 Harry Stebbings As for Leah, prior to VC, she was a pioneer of the sharing economy with her founding of TaskRabbit, one of the leading online labor marketplaces in the US, where she raised over thirty-seven million dollars in VC funding in the process…
- ▶ 2:54 Harry Stebbings And first, a question from the wonderful Mike Maples, who asks, what was the spark for founding TaskRabbit? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:25 Harry Stebbings But I do want to start today on the theme of transferable learnings and discussing kind of the many successful years in operations there with TaskRabbit, and I want to ask you a two-fold question to start with. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:32 Leah Busque I think later stages, you know, you start to dive into the numbers and the unit economics and, you know, for TaskRabbit, we always operated in a way that we were contribution positive and very, very fiscally responsible and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:47 Leah Busque I'm just so excited and so thrilled about this next chapter of my career, and I feel like, you know, TaskRabbit was my first baby. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:27 Leah Busque And business model of marketplaces, and this is something maybe that I'm a little spoiled with with TaskRabbit because we were always so cognizant of unit economics and business model and operating with positive margins that I really… 2 times in the scene
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