TaskRabbit was invented because its founder needed dog food in a snowstorm.
In 2008, heading out to dinner in snowy Boston, Leah Busque realized she’d run out of food for her dog Kobe. She thought — what if neighbors could run errands for each other? She quit IBM, raised more than $50 million, and scaled it to over 40 cities. In 2017 IKEA bought the gig-economy platform for an undisclosed sum, reportedly under $75 million.
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