“If you are a teacher, be your best student.” Adyashanti “If you are a CEO, be your best employee.” Me In a recent strategic planning session it became very clear that one thing that TaskUs was missing was a well communicated long term vision. Our team knew that we wanted to grow. But how specifically? Would we raise money? Did we want to go public, sell, run this thing as a lifestyle? I spent the past three weeks working on this. I sat down with every member of our management
Last week I spent five days on a silent mediation retreat led by Adyashanti in Lake Tahoe. Two years ago I spent eight days in silence with Adya in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I had been told to expect that my second retreat would be totally different from the first. But I was amazed by how different the experience of sitting in silence could be. Partially the product of maturity, partially the product of whatever is up at the moment. When I tell people that I was on a silent retreat,
In the April edition of our TaskUs Core Value Champions series, I have two spectacular employees that deserve credit and attention for their hard work. Fernan Delbo and Leila Bondoc are exemplary TaskUs team members and both consistently demonstrate the core value: Do more with less. At TaskUs, we appreciate their hard work and love having them as part of the TaskUs family. Name: Fernan Delbo Job: Online Researcher/Discount Deal Hunter Core Value: Do more with less Fernan is an incredibly hard working data entry representative. He’s been with TaskUs
When I started TaskUs with my business partner, Jaspar Weir, we collaborated on absolutely everything. Fortunately, we received some great advice from a successful entrepreneur who told us to each pick a separate piece of the business that would become our responsibility and focus. Naturally, we both wanted sales. Sales is cool, sexy and most importantly, lucrative. After slugging it out for a few hours, I compromised and decided to focus on operations. Although being initially apprehensive, I am now aware of the dire need for a strong operations department
This year’s marathon was overshadowed by terror and tragedy. Another reminder of the seemingly insurmountable challenges that our world is faced with. From acts of terror to climate change to pathetic partisan grid lock in our world’s capitals, it is almost enough to make you give up hope. But then we see images of people running towards a blast to help the injured, we see a city and a nation come together in grief and we see the innocent face of an eight year old child, who lost his life
Yesterday was triumph, followed by terror. I ran the Boston Marathon in 2:54, a personal best. I hobbled back to my hotel to the news that there were two explosions at the finish line, just over an hour after I crossed it. In that moment you fear the worst. Over the course of the afternoon the news trickled in and the worst was confirmed. Two bombs, 144 people maimed and burned and 3 dead, one of which was an eight year old boy named Martin Richard, who was waiting to
Huge thanks to all of the good folks at Oyster.com “The Hotel Tell-All” website for profiling me on their travel blog. Special thanks to Kelsey Blodget (@kelseyblodget) and Emily Weber for asking great questions and putting together a great blog post. If you haven’t visited Oyster.com yet, head there immediately. It is an amazing source of hotel information and reviews provided by frequent travelers like myself. Happy Wednesday everyone!
As TaskUs continues to scale, just remembering the names of each team member becomes challenging and it’s easy to fall out of touch with what makes our team great. Thousands of miles away, I still find myself constantly surprised and inspired by the incredible work of our team in the Philippines. Unfortunately, our team members’ accomplishments aren’t publicized to anyone other than our team in Santa Monica and our clients. So, we decided to begin recognizing employees each month that embody one of our six TaskUs core values: Inspire Others
And the so-called real world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings, because the so-called real world of men and money and power hums merrily along in a pool of fear and anger and frustration and craving and worship of self. This is Water, David Foster Wallace
Improving education in the Philippines will take a considerable amount of time and effort. However, I am happy to report the change made by the TaskUs Foundation. It was only a year ago that we conceived the notion of starting a fund to help provide educational opportunities to the children of TaskUs employees. With one fundraising campaign in anticipation of running the LA Marathon, we were able to raise $16,000 for the TaskUs foundation to benefit three amazing kids: JT, Bea and Jeru. Here is a brief update of the