Leah Busque | Founder of Taskrabbit

About this video

TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque recounts how she discovered the idea for the on-demand task marketplace during a mundane moment in 2008—running out of dog food—and how her entrepreneurial mindset, combined with relentless execution, enabled her to secure early funding and launch the company during the financial crisis.

Key takeaways

• Ideas are discoveries, not inventions; they surround you constantly, but you must cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset to recognize and act on them. Leah had been thinking entrepreneurially for months before the dog food moment, which primed her to see the opportunity.
• Leah introduces the concept of ‘vuja de’—seeing something familiar in a new way—as the inverse of déjà vu. She applied this by recognizing that connecting people online to complete everyday tasks was possible by combining emerging technologies like the iPhone, mobile, location awareness, and social networks.
• Relentless execution and willingness to invest personal resources (like spending $750 on a plane ticket for a 15-minute meeting with Tim Ferriss) can turn small actions into major outcomes. That meeting led to Tim becoming an advisor and introducing her to an investor for her $1 million seed round.

Episode details: published March 30, 2017 · 3.8K views · 13:29 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The business ideas, figures and results discussed are the hosts’ and guests’ own claims, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — not verified facts and not investment advice.

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