I forsee a near future where employers offer Exec/TaskRabbit credits or dollars alongside other standard benefits such as healthcare, 401k, etc. Good work guys!
Justin Kan’s Exec Starts Running Errands For Companies And Startups Today
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#32That's pretty interesting. One of the things I've always wanted to learn is how to drive a stick shift. I'd definitely pay someone $25/hr to learn.
For what it's worth, people who drive stick are conditioned not to help other people drive stick, because new stick drivers are murder on clutches, and clutches are notoriously expensive to replace.
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#33Any chance you'll have an API for this in the future? I can see amazing potential for new business and experiences to be build on top of Exec. If nothing else, in some sense you can "automate" tasks that occur at less predictable intervals, such as "clean up my condo after my airbnb guests have left" or "need virtual assistant when workload exceeds X".
Congrats guys! I look forward to seeing this grow!
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#34That's pretty interesting. One of the things I've always wanted to learn is how to drive a stick shift. I'd definitely pay someone $25/hr to learn.
Start with a Motorcycle Safety Foundation class.
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#35Are average developers really getting paid 150K in the valley these days? (figure mentioned in the article)
At $150K, you are not "average", you are a good developer, with some specialized skills that make you hard to replace quickly.
Or a college hire at a famous company (counting equity and benefits) ,
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#37It's a nice perk, but "distracted" by dry cleaning or grocery shopping? What's next, distracted by sleeping or having a life outside work? I'd take this kind of thing a lot more seriously if it was at least not pitched as a way to spend more time in the office.
Lots of our customers are using Exec as a way to provide their team members with more leisure time. The way I normally pitch it is that if you want to go grocery shopping to get ingredients for a special meal you are going to cook and you will enjoy, then by all means, go for it. If grocery shopping is a chore that you don't look forward to, then outsource it. You should outsource the things you don't want to do to l…
"Lots of our customers are using Exec as a way to provide their team members with more leisure time."
This. I hate waking up early, work very long hours, and find the majority of the time I have for running errands falls outside of traditional "business hours". That means these errands either stack up until I have to take an entire day or two away from the office every few months, or I have to leave my desk and do them midday.
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#38Kozmo.com 2.0?
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#39It's a nice perk, but "distracted" by dry cleaning or grocery shopping? What's next, distracted by sleeping or having a life outside work? I'd take this kind of thing a lot more seriously if it was at least not pitched as a way to spend more time in the office.
Lots of our customers are using Exec as a way to provide their team members with more leisure time. The way I normally pitch it is that if you want to go grocery shopping to get ingredients for a special meal you are going to cook and you will enjoy, then by all means, go for it. If grocery shopping is a chore that you don't look forward to, then outsource it. You should outsource the things you don't want to do to l…
What about using EXEC for data entry, small graphic projects, duplicating documents/updating content in documents?
Is this a viable area for such a service?
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#40I really like the approach of trying to reduce friction as much as possible. The main problem that I have with TaskRabbit, fiverr, etc is that while those services might be able to help me outsource things I don't want to do myself, they create additional, new work for me in making me draft a proposal, vet people, and so forth, which is (partially) self-defeating.
That's pretty much the precise reason that I don't tend to use these so-called "collaborative consumption" services more: it takes a lot of effort to ensure you get a quality experience. It's great that Exec is doing all that work up front so I won't have to. It seems to me that a lot of startups go the two-sided marketplace route because they're unable (for fear of becoming a party to the transaction, as well as oft…
The other main point of friction I've encountered with AirBnB is the whole checkin process - it's rare that people lay around their apartments all day long, so there's always a bit of scrambling as both parties try to sync up their schedules.