As the tech world inches a closer to the idea of artificial general intelligence, we’re seeing another interesting theme emerging in the ongoing democratization of AI: a wave of startups buildin
Cleanly, the YC-backed company that looked to bring tech to the laundry industry, has today announced a merger with NextCleaners. The New York-based companies signed an all-stock deal after more than
Justin Kan launched Exec in early 2012 as an on-demand errand service for businesses, but over time, morphed into a cleaning service to focus on its most popular offering. Unable to scale “Erran
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iamexec.com">Exec</a> says that it's dropping prices for its home cleaning service in all nine markets by 25 percent.
Founder and CEO Justin Kan told me that cus
You're going to have to do that chore yourself, because the venture capitalist won't pay for it anymore. Exec couldn't find a way to scale its "Errands" on-demand personal assistant service beyond San
On-demand helper startup <a target="_blank" href="http://wunwun.com/">WunWun</a> has for the past few months offered consumers the ability to get pretty much anything delivered for a flat rate. Now, t
Hot on the heels of Exec’s Cleaning Service launch in NYC, we couldn’t resist the opportunity to get CEO and co-founder Justin Kan in the studio for a quick chat. We also couldn’t re
Starting a service that lets people request real-life humans to do tasks for them or clean up their apartment is no small feat. Exec’s founder and CEO, Justin Kan, set out to build a service tha
Exec — the Y Combinator-backed app that does your errands on-demand — just launched a cleaning-only app. It’s a decision that makes sense as housework has ended up being about 50 per
Thanks Exec, for reminding us that we spend most of our days in a hamster wheel. The point of its new <a target="_blank" href="http://iamexec.com/blog/countdown-of-life-how-much-time-do-you-have-left-
<a target="_blank" href="https://iamexec.com/home">Exec</a>, which is a service focused on San Francisco professionals, does all types of tasks for you at pretty decent rates. I've used the service to
Here's to iteration. When Justin Kan first launched <a target="_blank" href="https://iamexec.com/">Exec</a>, a service for getting errands done on demand, I was one of the first beta testers. We had a
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iamexec.com">Exec</a>, the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/31/exec-the-mobile-app-for-errands-adds-messaging-oh-and-sam-altman-led-their-round/">Uber-meets-
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/exec/id493905230?mt=8">Exec</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/29/exec-justin-tv/">which is kind of like Uber-meets-Taskrabbit</a>, is overhauling its
Exec, a mobile app that instantly gets people to do your errands, has raised $3.3 million, <a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1550864/000155086412000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml">accor
Justin Kan is a busy guy. The serial entrepreneur is best known as the founder of <a href="http://www.justin.tv/">Justin.tv</a>, the online community that lets users broadcast, watch, and interact aro
You're paying your developer $150,000 a year plus change. Why let them get distracted by dry cleaning or grocery shopping?
While the very biggest companies like Google and Facebook have figured out