Leah Solivan

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165 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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And he is still on the TaskRabbit platform today.

Yes, it was a terrible time to raise money, a terrible time to start a business.

There were more than one moment where I thought I should just go back to IBM.

This is not going to work.

Really?

I pitched every investor I could in Boston.

Everyone said no.

I then came out to the Bay Area, to California, to Silicon Valley.

I had never been to the West Coast before in my entire life.

I was 28 years old.

And I remember looking around at the redwood trees and people sitting in coffee shops talking about their startups and their businesses.

And I thought like,

where am I?

This feels like a very different place than Boston at the time.

But I was able to raise money.

You really do.

You have to believe it in your bones.

I mean, you have to feel it.

And you have to be willing to break through walls to make it happen.

At the busiest at the height, it felt like a manic episode, honestly, because it was, you're just pulled in a million different directions.

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