President of TaskUs discusses rocky road to success

The timing couldn't have been worse. After friends Jaspar Weir and Bryce Maddock launched their first entrepreneurial endeavor — hosting alcohol-free parties for teenagers in Los Angeles nightclubs — the recent college graduates used the revenue from that effort to start digital outsourcing company TaskUs. It was 2008, at the start of the Great Recession. "It happened to be literally at the worst point — to the month — where the economy had just collapsed so job prospects weren't great,"…