Busque: TaskRabbit Threw Away Its Entire Codebase in 2014
Leah Busque · Crushing the Pivot: Lessons Learned from a Product Reboot with TaskRabbit · Jul 10, 2019 · at 1:37
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TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque discusses the company's major product pivot and technological reboot.
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“In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch.”
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