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The Capital Flex Podcast

S2EP10: We Launched the Category with Leah Solivan

Jul 8, 2026 · 36m

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About this episode

She drew the blueprint for the gig economy in 2008. Uber. Lyft. DoorDash. They all came later. In the moment, though, she navigated significant disbelief and had an investor call her “babe” mid-pitch. . She built it anyway. In this episode of The Capital Flex, I sit down with Leah Solivan, founding CEO of TaskRabbit, the company that built the gig economy before any of us were calling it that. Nine years later, she had raised $50 million and exited TaskRabbit to IKEA. Now, as founder of Prece...