TaskRabbit

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TaskRabbit, Inc.
legal form Corporation
founding 2008
Seat San Francisco , United States
management Stacy Brown-Philpot ( CEO )
Branch Gig economy
Website www.taskrabbit.com
As of December 31, 2018

TaskRabbit  is an online platform that functions as a mini-job marketplace in the context of the gig economy and pairs job offers (work orders) with available job demand (employees) at the local level. This brokerage platform offers users the option of placing orders for everyday tasks, such as cleaning, moving, transporting and manual tasks. Task Rabbit was founded in 2008 by Leah Busque and so far has 37.7 million US dollars received to finance money. To date there have been tens of thousands of certified "Taskers" members who are available to customers for various activities. In September 2017, IKEA announced the acquisition of TaskRabbit.

history

Busque got the idea for TaskRabbit when she didn't have time to buy new dog food at the time. Then she founded the online placement platform TaskRabbit based on the concept of “neighbors help neighbors”. Originally called TaskRabbit RunMyErrand , it was part of the Facebook incubator fbFund , where the company received a total of $ 1.8 million in seed funding from venture capital firms. Busque's first full-time employee was Brian Leonard, a software engineer she worked with at IBM .

In 2010, Busque changed the company name from RunMyErrand to TaskRabbit, spread her team across the country by the middle of the year and opened the first operations in the San Francisco Bay Area . Just one year later, TaskRabbit closed the Series A round with $ 5 million in funding with investments from Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, Baseline Ventures, Floodgate Fund, Collaborative Fund, 500 startups, and The Mesh author Lisa Gansky . At that time, the company had 13 employees and 2,000 registered members, and soon expanded to New York City , Chicago , Los Angeles, and  Orange County .

In July 2011, TaskRabbit launched an app that enabled users to post tasks and jobs with their smartphones. Three months later, Busque hired Eric Grosse, co-founder and former President of Hotwire.com , as the new CEO so that she could focus on product development. At the end of the year, TaskRabbit received an additional $ 17.8 million in the Series B funding round. TaskRabbit now employed 35 people and generated sales of $ 4 million per month. In 2012, Busque returned to the CEO position and Grosse moved to the Executive Board, from where he oversaw strategy and operational activities. In January 2013, the company hired Stacy Brown-Philpot, former Google Ventures entrepreneur-in-residence and former head of global operations, as its first COO .

In 2013, a new tool appeared for companies that could use it to temporarily find workers among the platform members and pay a commission of 26 percent. In April 2016, Stacy Brown-Philpot was promoted to CEO and in September 2017 the IKEA Group announced the acquisition of TaskRabbit.

Demographics

The educational level of the participating employees varies greatly. Since TaskRabbit is often used by users who have recently lost their permanent position, according to the online magazine The Verge, 70 percent have a bachelor's degree , 20 percent have a master’s degree and even 5 percent have a Ph.D. Some Taskers have even been able to convert their TaskRabbit contracts into long-term employment.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gwen Moran: Building a Business on Busy Schedules and Making Errands Pay . In: Entrepreneur . November 21, 2011 ( entrepreneur.com [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b Alexia Tsotsis: TaskRabbit Turns Grunt Work Into a Game . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  3. ↑ TaskRabbit takes on another $ 13 million in funding as investors bet big on peer-to-peer marketplaces . In: The Verge . ( theverge.com [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Colleen Taylor: TaskRabbit Nab's ex-Googler Stacy Brown-Philpot For COO Spot . In: TechCrunch . ( techcrunch.com [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Sanjiv Bhattacharya: Task Rabbit: How an app can relieve you of all your chores . December 5, 2015, ISSN  0307-1235 ( telegraph.co.uk [accessed November 9, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b Ikea has bought TaskRabbit . In: Recode . ( recode.net [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  7. ↑ How one woman technologist single-handedly created thousands of jobs | VentureBeat. Retrieved November 10, 2017 (American English).
  8. ↑ Alexia Tsotsis: TaskRabbit Gets A New CEO, Eric Grosse . In: TechCrunch . ( techcrunch.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Box, Qumu, Zenprise: Bay Area BizTech News by the Numbers | Xconomy . In: Xconomy . October 12, 2011 ( xconomy.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Task Rabbit Hires Google's Brown-Philpot in a Renewed Management Expansion (Video) . In: AllThingsD . ( allthingsd.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Colleen Taylor: Task Rabbit Debuts Tools For Hiring Ongoing Temp Work As It Hones Focus On Business Users . In: TechCrunch . ( techcrunch.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  12. ↑ TaskRabbit names new CEO . In: USA TODAY . ( usatoday.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Temping fate: can TaskRabbit go from side gigs to real jobs? In: The Verge . ( theverge.com [accessed November 10, 2017]).