Leah Solivan

Excited to share that I’m now working exclusively with Outspoken Agency for speaking engagements. As I head into the next chapter with @breakingprecedent the Podcast, my upcoming book (can’t wait to share more!!), and a growing focus on sharing lessons from building, investing, and breaking norms, it felt important to partner with a team that truly understands my voice and audience. If you’re planning an event and looking for a speaker on entrepreneurship, AI, or navigating inflection points, you can now book me directly through @outspokenagency 🔗 book in bio

Crazy that she sold her company to IKEA 🤯 Many thanks to Leah Solivan - founder of TaskRabbit - for all of her wisdom and advice shared in this video! -- Across both her companies she’s worked with - the companies & funds that she's invested in are now worth BILLIONS!

She built the BIGGEST marketplace for getting sh*t done. Meet @leah_solivan , founder of @taskrabbit - a platform that empowered millions to earn money on their own terms, sold to @ikea for approx $100M. Before her, hiring a stranger to help you was weird. Now millions of people do it every day. Entire industries followed what she built. If you’re building ANYTHING, you need to watch this… Supported by @harmonic.ai the tool I use to source founders. #founder #entrepreneurship #success #successful #growth

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We tend to think breaking precedent starts with boldness. But I’m starting to believe it begins somewhere quieter. With honesty. With alignment. With the moment you stop performing and start becoming. So much of leadership is learned through adaptation. You study the room, understand what gets rewarded, and shape yourself accordingly. It works, until eventually it doesn’t. Not because you’re failing. Because something no longer feels true. One of the most important things Stacy Brown-Philpot said to me was: “The more you become who you really are, the more in touch you are with your soul and what’s right and what’s true for you. And then you break precedent.” That line stayed with me. Because the leaders who truly change industries, systems, and culture are often the ones willing to stop optimizing for acceptance. Not to be provocative. But to become fully aligned with what they actually see. That’s where the shift begins. Read in full on substack @precedentcollective

The Founder of Task Rabbit Nearly Lost Her Firstborn Running The Company

What if venture capital isn’t a meritocracy at all — but a system optimized around proximity to power? This week on Breaking Precedent, Leah Solivan speaks with Paige Hendrix Buckner, CEO of @allraiseorg about the hidden structures shaping who gets access, who gets trusted, and who gets overlooked. From classrooms to startups to venture capital, Paige shares how her lived experiences revealed the same pattern over and over again: talent alone is rarely enough. A powerful conversation on systems, storytelling, power dynamics, and expanding opportunity without lowering the bar. Episode now live.

AI’s biggest impact may not be efficiency — it’s perspective. Looking at problems differently. Designing beyond human intuition. Accelerating decisions with better data. What’s happening in space is just one example.

Talent is everywhere. Access is not. Tomorrow on Breaking Precedent, Leah sits down with @paigehbuckner CEO of @allraiseorg for a conversation about power, trust, venture capital, and the systems that quietly shape opportunity. From teaching in under-resourced classrooms to helping founders navigate venture capital, Paige brings a rare systems-level perspective to the question of who gets funded, who gets overlooked, and why. This is not a surface-level conversation about representation. It’s a conversation about proximity, pattern recognition, and the structures behind decision-making itself. New episode drops tomorrow.

There’s a quiet shift happening in venture capital right now. Not just in what gets funded — but in who gets believed, who gets access, and who gets to define what “institutional quality” even means. This week I hosted an Unprecedented Lunch focused on one big question: What precedents in venture are no longer serving innovation? Around the table: emerging managers multibillion-dollar funds university endowments family offices operator-investors impact allocators ecosystem builders Collectively representing well over $100B in capital. But what made the conversation powerful wasn’t the AUM. It was the willingness to challenge assumptions that have quietly governed this industry for decades. Questions like: — What signals of credibility are outdated? — Has venture become too consensus-driven? — If we rebuilt the industry today from scratch, what would we never design the same way again? — What patterns are being missed because they don’t fit the historical playbook? The future of venture won’t be built by people protecting precedent. It will be built by people willing to question it. That’s the room I want to keep building.

Most paths are designed for stability. Fewer are designed for what you actually want. Eiman Jahangir on recognizing when it’s time to move beyond the expected — and what it takes to follow through.