Leah Solivan
13 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 15, 2024 by Leah Solivan · across every show →
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Aug 15, 2024 negative
Aug 15, 2024
Difficult board dynamics shaped Leah Solivan's non-imposing VC operating style
“I had a very complicated board dynamic at different points in my TaskRabbit journey, and I was always super sensitive to the imposition that an investor can have on a founder, and I always wanted to be that investor That was going to be really helpful and was …”
Aug 15, 2024 negative
Replacing TaskRabbit's founder with a CEO post-Series A was a mistake
“I think my mistake there was that the company was still so young, it was still so early, To remove the founder as the leader. A COO would have been fine. And in fact, the second time around, we brought in an incredible COO that's been on this podcast before, S…”
Aug 15, 2024 positive
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Aug 15, 2024 negative
Solivan: I would have found a co-founder before launching TaskRabbit
“If I could go back and do it all over again, I would have tried harder from the beginning. To find a co-founding partner. Like before I went to the incubator program, you know, maybe even before I left IBM, I would have taken the time from the very beginning t…”
Aug 15, 2024 bearish
Solivan: Small VC funds struggle to compete in capital-intensive AI investments
“I think to some extent, to some of the big AI companies, you see the same thing, and so you see the big players like Andreessen, or you see Microsoft investing in OpenAI, like, you need really, really deep pockets to be successful. I think it's harder for the …”
Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024 neutral
Aug 15, 2024
Founders must ask VCs exactly how much reserve capital is earmarked
“I would ask them, what are you saving for me as a company? What do you got earmarked for me in this fund? Right? And I think understanding that along the way would have been helpful in planning how we, how and when we did fund raises.”
Aug 15, 2024 negative
Aug 15, 2024
Aug 15, 2024
Leah Solivan built TaskRabbit's first version in six to eight weeks
“It took six to eight weeks to get something built that I felt like was ready for people to use. And then I said, okay, I need to find people that are gonna do the jobs. And so I went on Craigslist, put it out, put out an ad for someone to run errands.”