Hate building Ikea furniture? There's a simple solution for that

Assembling Ikea furniture isn't always the most enjoyable way to spend an afternoon. Thankfully, the retail giant now offers ...
Business Insider

I hired a TaskRabbit to help me assemble my IKEA furniture — and it solved the most annoying problem with shopping from the furniture giant

IKEA is known for its inexpensive furniture, but assembling it can be a daunting task. In 2017, IKEA acquired TaskRabbit, which lets users hire temporary workers through the TaskRabbit app to do ...
Yahoo Finance

Taskrabbit founder on Uber, Lyft: 'Sometimes you have to trade growth for profitability'

Taskrabbit had raised $50 million in funding and was profitable when IKEA acquired the online marketplace for handymen-on-demand in 2017. While there has been a deluge of initial public offerings in ...
TechCrunch

TaskRabbit Debuts Tools For Hiring Ongoing Temp Work As It Hones Focus On Business Users

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that has made a name for itself by helping people connect with odd jobs, is now a place where you can find a real job too. Today TaskRabbit is launching a new set ...
Fast Company

TaskRabbit Quietly Doubled The Cut It Takes From Many Of Its Workers

An email with the subject line “Tipping is coming to TaskRabbit!” sounded like positive news to Toby, who works as a handyman in New York City on the popular odd-jobs platform. But buried at the ...
The Verge

TaskRabbit is blowing up its business model and becoming the Uber for everything

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. Since it opened up five years ago ...
SFGate

TaskRabbit makes some workers hopping mad

A rabbit revolution is brewing at TaskRabbit, the site for arranging odd jobs. The San Francisco company last week overhauled how it matches workers with assignments for housecleaning, home repairs, ...
The Verge

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith isn’t afraid of AI robots replacing human labor

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The head of the Ikea-owned gig work platform on AI automation, the state of the gig economy, and the future of ...
Business Insider

Is Taskrabbit a new recession indicator? Its CEO says applications to be a 'Tasker' have spiked

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith says interest in becoming a "tasker" is way up. There's been a noticeable uptick in applications over the past three years, the CEO told the Decoder podcast. Asked if that ...
Yahoo Finance

TaskRabbit At 79? A Retired Mortgage Manager Assembles Furniture For $47 An Hour, Pulling In $3,000 To $5,000 A Month

At 79, Dan Weiss has found an unconventional way to stay active, earn a solid income and connect with people – assembling furniture on TaskRabbit. The retired mortgage manager from Oakdale, Minnesota, ...
TechCrunch

TaskRabbit For Business Service Portal Quietly Disappears

TaskRabbit for Business, the errands marketplace’s business-focused web portal announced at the beginning of last year, has quietly disappeared. Links to this particular service, which was aimed at ...