Leah Solivan
17 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2022 by Leah Solivan · across every show →
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Solivan: Boston's DIY culture hindered TaskRabbit, requiring a San Francisco move
“I think the culture of Bostonians is a very do-it-yourself mentality. And so that was some friction for this type of service, and I felt like if we could just get to San Francisco, where, you know, it's the tech company capital of the world, like, this is the …”
Jul 11, 2022 negative
Solivan: TaskRabbit Hired an External CEO Too Early to Scale
“I think when I look back, it was more about timing because the business was too early. To bring in someone that was a step away from the core vision, and the business still needed me to really drive the momentum forward. He was brought into scale. It was too e…”
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Jul 11, 2022
Leah Solivan disengages from problems others can solve just as well
“I only like to work on problems that I feel like I can uniquely solve. And if I feel like there's someone else who can also do it and do it just as well, like, I become very disengaged and very bored and uninterested in working on it”
Jul 11, 2022 positive
Jul 11, 2022
Solivan: Cashed out $27,000 IBM pension to fund RunMyErrand
“So I had 27,000 dollars in my IBM pension program that, you know, we could withdraw with a penalty because it was your retirement. But I was like, whatever, let's just withdraw this money. And so I gave myself like six months to make something happen.”
Jul 11, 2022 positive
Solivan: 2008 Crisis Flooded TaskRabbit With Laid-Off Professionals Seeking Errand Work
“It was overwhelming. And the, I mean, the skill sets, and the talent, and these people were educated, and they'd gone to college, they were pharmacists, they were lawyers, they were teachers, they were being laid off. And they were looking for new ways to make…”
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Solivan: Did early TaskRabbit errands personally on a scooter
“I ended up being the one doing a lot of the early jobs. I had this little scooter that I rode around Boston, a Charlestown area, and I would do a lot of the early jobs myself, and so I would then get, like, first-hand knowledge of what it was like to be A task…”
Jul 11, 2022
Solivan onboarded the first 30 RunMyErrand runners via in-person interviews
“Yeah, I met everyone face-to-face to start, because I was terrified that, you know, there was going to be a trust and safety issue early on. And so I met them all at Zumi's Coffee Shop, thirty-minute interviews, and I brought on 30 of them to start the site.”
Sep 12, 2024 negative
Sep 12, 2024
Sep 12, 2024
Solivan: Founders must pitch broad visions but execute on narrow wedges
“I think as a founder, you have so many ideas, you see all the possibilities, and really, you have to pitch all of those possibilities to kind of bring people in and inspire them and get the company off the ground, but when it comes down to execution and custom…”