Sarah Rogers
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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Kyllä, kyllä.
Hello, this is Business Daily on the BBC World Service.
I'm Sarah Rogers.
Today's founder is Leah Sullivan, the founder of TaskRabbit, an app that connects people with taskers who they pay to help with everyday jobs like building flatbed furniture.
Hi, Leah.
Welcome.
Hello.
Thank you so much for having me on.
Now, Leah, you started in tech before founding your own company after a simple frustration.
You needed dog food and you didn't want to go out and get it yourself.
Now, that relatable moment sparked TaskRabbit in 2008 and made you a pioneer of the gig economy before the mainstream.
You built it into a global business, sold it to IKEA, but success, of course, disappeared.
did come at a personal price, which we'll talk about.
Now you're on the other side of the table as a venture capitalist and you've got a book coming out next year.
Not much then.
So let's go back to before all that.
Before you got the dog, you grew up in a small town in Massachusetts.
What was family life like?
How old were you when you asked your dad that question?
That's really different from the girl who wants to be the CEO, also want to be a ballet dancer.
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