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Leah Busque

About Leah Busque

Founder and current Executive Director at TaskRabbit, Leah Busque succeeded in transforming a local neighborhood social network into a profitable and successful business.

An engineer turned businesswoman, Busque worked for more than seven years at IBM as a software engineer. In 2008 she founded TaskRabbit, a platform for both individuals and small businesses to sub-contract people from their local communities with free time to do a variety of different tasks. Currently the site publishes jobs worth over $4million per month.

Talking Points

TaskRabbit: The business model behind an innovative social network for the exchange of services

How to create and incentivize trust when the success of a business depends on clients interacting with people they don’t know

The importance of creativity and innovation in building a successful start up