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Daniel Andrews shared this** Meet the greatest in growth & marketing in New York City ** Builder events are back. Come see how the best in growth are building GTM motions that scale. If you want to show off your skills, learn how AI is taking over, get funding (our VC friends might be lurking), or join the best NYC startups, come join an unbeatable community. The events are simple — part happy-hour, part feedback session where folks showcase demos of what they’re working on. Interested in stopping by? Drop a comment below and we’ll send the invite! Monday, May 11th in Union Square.
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Daniel Andrews shared thisCongrats to Tim Lupo and team!! Some of the smartest and hardworking people out there. Another "The Playground" office co doing huge things 👀Daniel Andrews shared thisExcited to announce Deeptune has raised $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Labs and enterprises must turn model capability into real-world performance. Doing so will require distilling the entire economy into environments for AI. We believe this to be the most critical work in the pursuit of AGI. We’re a small, focused team of engineers and operators in New York. If you want to work on the hardest (and weirdest) problems of your career, we would love to hear from you.
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Daniel Andrews posted this**Job opportunities for early career / recent grads** Playground's Support & Customer Ops team is looking to add hungry new grads to the team. If the prospect of building a "famously friendly" customer org or getting in early at a fast growing tech startup excites you, you're perfect for the role. Free lunch daily + new MacBook if you join the team 😉 You'll join an all-star team (Eamon Davis, Zach Fortin, Nadiuska J., Adrian Ruiz, Felicity Franklin, @andrew) in NYC or Denver. We're open to hiring new and recent grads with 0-2 years of experience, whether that's internship or full-time. Comment your email down below and someone from our team will be in touch!
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Daniel Andrews shared this*Hiring in Customer Success* We outgrew our Denver office already and are moving down the block to a bigger office 🚀 Full steam ahead growing our famously friendly customer success team at Playground! Looking for incredible: - Customer Success Managers - Onboarding Managers - Account Managers - Product Support Engineers - Customer Support Link below for our careers page
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Daniel Andrews shared this** We are hiring ** For anyone affected by layoffs (or just looking for a new role) we are hiring across 25 roles in New York & Denver. We see AI as a way to get so much *more* out of the people who work here and are full steam ahead with hiring At Playground we are working to make excellent child care accessible to all, we use AI heavily internally to help with ops, but we see it as an output multiplier. Join us! roles: https://lnkd.in/eHjY5-GTPlayground Careers & Jobs | Join The Playground TeamPlayground Careers & Jobs | Join The Playground Team
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Daniel Andrews posted thisI just hit five years of being a founder, building Playground alongside Josh Andrews and Sasha Reiss. What started as a tool to help my mom run her business has evolved into a mission to help thousands of childcare businesses across the country. The stories we hear fuel us: a director in Kansas who finally stopped working weekends to do billing, a small center that hasn't lost a single teacher since starting with Playground, and multi-site operators who are using Playground to fuel their next phase of growth. Five years in, this is just the beginning. We've grown from Josh, Sasha, and I in a WeWork to 50+ people across offices in two cities, and gone from being mistaken for a playground equipment company to partnering with some of the best and most caring childcare operators in the country. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of this journey, year six is going to be crazier than all the rest
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Daniel Andrews shared this* Recruiting a (technical) Recruiter * We're expanding access to quality child care and we're looking to more than double our product team. We have 10 seats open TODAY (and more as we grow!) and are looking for a talent magnet to help us grow our team. You'll work directly alongside me to attract and hire the best of the best in our NYC office. Help me hire (or comment below if you're interested!) Product - Frontend Software Engineers - Full Stack Software Engineers - Platform Engineers - AI Engineers - Engineering Managers - Product Designers - Product Managers Great opportunity to expand into other functions within the team as well as we grow! Apply here: https://lnkd.in/eHjY5-GT
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Daniel Andrews shared thisWhat happens when you give everyone at your company Lovable credits? Over preschool winter break, everyone at Playground got to build something and compete for our first ever "Vibe Code" Award. From that, we got → AI book recommender (https://lnkd.in/e8_bEJ3Y) → Playground themed Cookie Clicker (http[s://https://lnkd.in/eNj6k9tN) → A new way to triage internal product ideas → Snack ordering portal → Automated crazy good AI Handoff notes → An allergy scanner (https://lnkd.in/ejZGvb8i) → A centralized hub for all things Playground (Cam Wilson created, See screenshot) → so, so, much more Want to build AI tools as a full time job? We're hiring!
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Daniel Andrews posted thisDo you go to bed thinking about AI? Do you love building new tools with Lovable and/or AI agents? Want your full time job to be working with AI that impacts an incredibly important cause? We're hiring for a bunch of roles across the org to go deeper on AI and AI tooling to continue building a famously friendly organization. At Playground, we're working to make incredible child care accessible to all. Send an email with something you've built to daniel@tryplayground.com or comment below with a link
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisA few years ago, four startups shared one tiny office. Today, they’re worth a combined $500M+. Back in 2022, we'd all just raised our first rounds. None of us could justify Manhattan rent, and nobody wanted a soulless WeWork membership. So July, Playground, SOMETHINGS, and Deeptune got cozy: one lease, 3,000 sqft in SoHo, split by team size. My share was ~$2K/month. Looking back, this was one of the best decisions we had ever made. Not just because we were splitting rent, but because surrounding yourself with people like Daniel Andrews, Patrick Gilligan, and Tim Lupo has compounding returns. Sales calls happened out loud, so everyone got free trainings. Marketing experiments got debated over lunch. When one of us closed a big deal, four companies learned how. When one of us failed horribly, four companies learned why. We cheered when Playground signed their first state contract. We celebrated when SOMETHINGS announced their raise. We watched excitedly as Deeptune left the creator economy (iykyk). And we huddled around one laptop on a rainy Friday, watching SVB collapse and wondering if any of us would make payroll come Monday morning. Fast forward to today: → Playground is THE fastest growing childcare startup in the US → SOMETHINGS is revolutionizing mental health mentorship for teenagers → Deeptune was just acquired by Mercor → And July is powering largest talent agencies in the world Four companies. One room. Over half a billion dollars in combined value less than 4 years later. We didn't set out to build one of the tightest startup communities in NYC. We just couldn't afford to work alone... which ended up being the best decision we never meant to make. All of us have since grown up and moved onto our own spaces, but 424 Broadway will be marked down as one of the best possible accidental accelerators NYC has ever seen!! Should the four of us throw a commemorative happy hour soon? One comment and we do it. #nyc #startups
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisI am so excited to have officially joined Playground this week as the new Senior Manager of Client Onboarding! I am completely blown away by the energy, passion, and excitement reverberating through the organization. Our three core values - Entrepreneurship, Craft, and Empathy - are evident in every single team member, and are all driven by a shared commitment to delivering the absolute best childcare software experience to our clients. I couldn't be more excited to dive in, lead our incredible onboarding team, and help our clients succeed and grow - shoutout to our July New Hire Cohort! 😀🛝💻
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisPlayground is growing and we're looking to expand our Product team with a Senior Product Manager! This PM will work directly with Josh Andrews & Tim Wernke and will have the opportunity to define our roadmap within Playground. If you're interested in having genuine Product ownership in an environment that ships something every day, I'd love to hear from you!
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisExcited to share that Deeptune is joining Mercor. When we started Deeptune, we believed RL environments would become the defining bottleneck for AI. Over the past two years, we've seen this play out even faster than we expected. Mercor has built the world's leading expert network for AI, making it the obvious place to continue our mission. Together, we'll build the platform that powers the next generation of AI agents. Our entire team is joining Mercor in NYC, and we'll continue building with far greater resources towards the even bigger opportunity ahead. I'm deeply grateful to our customers, investors, and everyone who helped us get here. Most of all, thank you to the Deeptune team. None of this would have been possible without you. We're just getting started.
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Daniel Andrews liked thisNew adventure! Grateful to the team at Playground for an energizing first week. Excited for what is to come! (P.S We are hiring! Check out open roles here https://lnkd.in/gB3p3tZA)Daniel Andrews liked this🚀 7 new teammates in one month at Playground… and we’re not scaling quietly. Last week, we kicked off our June internal new hire cohort in our Denver office- welcoming 7 new teammates!! The energy was immediate, the coffee was flowing, and the group jumped straight into immersion, connection, and the best kind of chaos. Meet the June cohort 👇 💼 Sales: (2 SDRs entering pipeline mode) 🌟 Matt Fedro, GISF: SDR Matt brings several years of tech sales experience, focused on building strong relationships and solving complex business challenges. He’s excited to bring that energy into a mission-driven environment. 🌟 Charles Robbins: SDR Charles brings a competitive, people-first sales mindset. He’s focused on building relationships, solving problems, and helping childcare providers and families thrive. 💛 Customer Experience: (we don’t onboard customers, we activate them) 🌟 Simon Cundall: Director of Customer Success Originally from New Zealand 🇳🇿 and now in Denver, Simon brings 10+ years in summer camps and 8+ years in childcare software CS. He’s passionate about scaling customer success while keeping customer stories at the center. 🌟 Amy Smith: Customer Onboarding Manager Amy comes from hospitality, events, tech support, and onboarding. She’s focused on turning complex systems into simple, confident steps so customers feel supported from day one. 🌟 Kira Blanco: Customer Onboarding Manager Kira is passionate about making onboarding human and seamless, with a love for helping people feel confident in new technology and exploring the outdoors 🌿. 🌟Brittnie H.: Onboarding Manager Customer obsession runs deep for Brittanie - from a Disney internship to SaaS onboarding. She loves being the first face customers meet and setting the tone for success. 🌟Melissa Licul: Head Start Implementation Manager Melissa leads Head Start implementations, bringing experience in structured onboarding and helping teams launch with confidence. Welcome to Playground 💛
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisHAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO MANAGE CREATORS? I spent the weekend with my boy Claude building a game to find out. Manager Simulator is live until the end of the week!! Clear the inbox. Close deals on your terms. Chase the money. Keep your roster from walking. All before the clock hits 6PM. You’ll get graded S through F. Most people land a C. Nobody’s touched S yet... 🏆 Highest score on the leaderboard by EOW gets a little gift :) Put your real name on the board (if you bad) so I know who wins. Link in the top comment 👇 #ManagerSimulator #CertifiedCloser
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisI’ve fallen off. Since the beginning of 2024, I’ve kept a daily tracker of my linkedin growth. But because I’m competitive, I’ve added four other people to the tracker as well. Three good friends and a fourth who doesn't even know I exist 🤣. 😂 Baylor Adams (Close friend, will literally never catch up) 😅 Daniel Andrews (Close friend, thinks he can beat me, glhf) 😤 Cory Levy (Close friend, I beat him once but he’s back on top) 🥹 Marty Kausas (Doesnt know me, goated content, MOGs tf out of me) I added a mix of people to keep me motivated, but as you can see, I’ve grown soft. While folks like Marty are built different, I'm simply built regular. THAT ENDS TODAY. In honor of the best month of the year, I’ll be entering my fourth annual “post every day of July” challenge on LinkedIn. If you want founder stories, shameless plugs, home grown slop (not ai),or my honest thoughts, then I hope you follow along. Happy ✨ July ✨ folks! See you tomorrow ☺️ #july #linkedinmaxxing
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Daniel Andrews liked thisDaniel Andrews liked thisAs we look for systemic change in early childhood education--everything needs to be on the table. The employee owned model is a critical space to watch. This article does a great job of narrating both the benefits and systemic barriers to the ESOP model in childcare. "In a field rife with workforce challenges, notably low compensation and poor benefits, the ESOP model offers providers an approach to building their wealth over time. But the model’s promise as a solution to the sector’s longstanding retention challenges hinges on reliable revenue — and for most childcare programs, that requires systemic change." https://lnkd.in/esWBUpwMThis Childcare Program Is 100% Employee-Owned. Will It Help Retain Workers?This Childcare Program Is 100% Employee-Owned. Will It Help Retain Workers?
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