Leah Busque


Leah Busque Solivan, the founder of TaskRabbit, is an American entrepreneur.
The 2008-founded company was originally named RunMyErrand and was renamed in 2010.

TaskRabbit

The company is an online and mobile marketplace that connects clients with "Taskers" to outsource small jobs and tasks, like cleaning, deliveries, furniture assembly, and more to others in their neighborhood. From 2008 to 2016, Busque served as CEO of TaskRabbit. Over that time, she scaled the company to 44 cities and raised more than $50 million. In April 2016, Busque transitioned into the role of executive chairwoman. In September 2017, TaskRabbit was acquired by IKEA.

Entrepreneur

In an interview with ABC News, she spoke of the pressure to succeed.,
Since the summer of 2017, Busque has been a General Partner at FUEL Capital, where she invests in early-stage companies across consumer technology, hardware, education, marketplaces, and retail.

Biography

Busque graduated from Sweet Briar College in 2001, earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science. She currently serves on the college's Board of Directors. Prior to RunMyErrand, Basque was an IBM Corp. engineer.
Busque lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, who is also "in technology," and two children.
In an interview, she said that, based on one of the couple's "geeky conversations" she "purchased the domain name Runmyerrand.com" and "Four months after that" left IBM "to build the first version of the site." When a chance to help the business grow required the family to relocate, they moved from Boston to San Francisco.