Marathon series: Tim Fung’s Airtasker is the TaskRabbit of Australia making $110M in revenue

Tim Fung, Airtasker, International Founders, Marketplace

Finding someone to help you with tasks and errands whether big or small can be challenging. How do you find someone who is reliable?

Tim Fung is Co-Founder and CEO of Airtasker which is a services marketplace allowing people to outsource chores and errands to people in their local community.

After asking a friend to help him move, Tim was inspired to create Airtasker to create a marketplace for people to connect to have tasks done.

Tim Fung

Airtasker

Tim Fung is Co-Founder and CEO of Airtasker which is a services marketplace allowing people to outsource chores and errands to people in their local community.

Andrew: Hey, there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses and I do it for an audience of entrepreneurs who are building their companies as they’re listening to these interviews. I’m here in Sydney, Australia because time difference makes it really hard for me to interview you guys and so I said, “You know, my goal this year is to run a marathon on every continent. As I travel the world, I’m going to be interviewing entrepreneurs who I can’t get access to ordinarily.” So, South America, hard to get to, flew there and did it. Here, I don’t get a lot of time with Sydney entrepreneurs, I’m going to fly here to do it. Africa, I can’t get them. The internet’s bad in many places. I’m going to go there and do it. I’m going to do it all over the world.

All right. And I’m here with Tim Fung. Am...

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