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Fill Rate

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Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 99

What They'd Do Differently 🔮 Kickstarting and Scaling a Marketplace Business

Dec 19, 2019 · 12 min

““At TaskRabbit, we scaled before we had product market fit. We should have focused on fill rate — the percentage of tasks posted that were complete. It was well under 100%, and people who didn’t get matched never came back. The company instead skewed too far into top-line growth, and should have focused on this much earlier before scaling.” — Brian Rothenberg Welcome to the eighth and FINAL (for now) post in my series on marketplace…”