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TaskRabbit Years
My first time starting a real business on my own: customer-facing work, physical labor, learning how to build trust, and generating over $50K in total revenue.
work notes
- role
- Freelancer
- period
- High school through college
- status
- archived
- tags
- New York · Early work · Service work · Hustle
TaskRabbit started in eleventh grade and kept running through college, generating over $50K in total revenue along the way.
I started out charging around $20 to $25 an hour. Over time, I built up enough reviews and repeat business that by college I was able to charge $125 an hour.
The work itself was direct and physical: construction help, moving help, logistics, customer service, and whatever needed to get done in front of a real person paying for the result.
That kind of work teaches a few things fast:
- be useful quickly
- read what people actually need, not just what they say
- keep moving
- earn trust through repetition
- realize that pricing power is partly a story about reliability