Jul 24, 2014
Leah Busque is the founder of TaskRabbit.com, a trailblazer in
service networking. Now an industry-wide concept, service
networking describes the productive power of a web-based,
social-networked community. Since its founding in 2008, Leah has
grown the company to more than 50 employees and has expanded the
service to Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City,
Orange County, San Antonio, and San Francisco.
Prior to founding TaskRabbit, Leah was a Software Engineer at IBM,
working in the Messaging and Collaboration Software Development
group. A rare blend of product talent and business savvy, Leah was
recently named one of the “100 Most Creative People In Business” by
Fast Company and one of the “15 Women To Watch In 2012” by Inc
Magazine.
In this episode, Leah discusses the all important question of
funding, and her thoughts on how to decide when and what kind of
funding to take. Her interviewer is Perri Blake Gorman, the founder
of Archive.ly.