TaskRabbit, every mention
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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…
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.
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.
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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