Courtesy of Can Monkey
- One Arizona man was tired of taking the trash out from the house to the curb.
- He started Can Monkey, which appeals to Airbnb hosts wanting to spare guests from checkout chores.
- Hosts and homeowners in 18 cities pay $49/month for gig workers to wheel their bins out and in.
Marc Zagoury was sick of forgetting to put his trash on the curb and bickering with family over whose turn it was to take out the bins.
Zagoury, who lived in Scottsdale, Arizona, outside Phoenix, discovered his neighbors were similarly fed up with the chore.
In 2018, he founded a startup called Can Monkey, which allows homeowners or property managers to outsource a simple task: wheeling out full cans for pickup on the correct day, and then taking them back inside when empty.