{"id":3108738,"date":"2026-04-02T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?post_type=tc_video&#038;p=3108738"},"modified":"2026-04-09T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:23:19","slug":"a-diverse-team-will-make-your-startup-more-successful","status":"publish","type":"tc_video","link":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/video\/a-diverse-team-will-make-your-startup-more-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"A diverse team will make your startup more successful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div id='jwppp-video-box-31087381' class='jwppp-video-box' itemprop='video' itemscope itemtype='http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject' data-video='1' style=\"margin: 1rem 0;\">\n<meta itemprop='name' content='Diverse teams start with diverse VCs with Leah Solivan, Taskrabbit'\/>\n<meta itemprop='description' content='If one thing has become clear this season, finding the right talent for your team isn\u2019t as easy as picking from a pile of resumes This week\u2019s guest is Leah Solivan, the founder of Taskrabbit and now an early-stage investor who has seen that the power to change a homogenous startup exosystem comes from empowering diverse VCs to fund underrepresented founders who will hire the hidden tech talent.From bootstrapping TaskRabbit on credit cards to scaling it into one of the defining companies of the gig economy, Leah learned firsthand that the hardest part of building a company isn\u2019t the product, it\u2019s selecting the right people to build it.In this episode, Isabelle Johannessen and Leah unpack what it really takes to build diverse teams from day one and why most companies get it wrong by waiting too long. 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