Childcare
topic on 8 shows · 11 statements across 10 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
More or Less 
Innovators & Investors 
the Knowledge Project 
Masters of Scale 
the Neon Show 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
the a16z Podcast
11 statements about Childcare, every show
Khanna: Elder Care Spans Decades Longer Than Childcare
“The childcare space probably lasts for 10 years or 11 years till the child becomes a teenager. The aging number of years are not defined. They could be 2030, 40, and maybe longevity catches up, maybe even more. So hence, it's going to be a very large part of o…”
Sam Lessin: Exempting mothers from income tax solves childcare economics
“If you're a woman and you were working before and doing the homework, but you weren't monetized and now you're monetized and you're making a hundred K a year. But you're paying 50 in taxes. You can't even afford childcare because the net, the tax burden fucks …”
Britt Morin: The Surgeon General shouldn't warn parents without offering policy solutions
“I don't think the Surgeon General should get to put out something like that without like a solution. And so, we're giving you, like, three more days off every month paid, or, like, free childcare for...”
Saujani: Childcare advocates must partner with the private sector, not await Washington
“There's people who say, ah, we don't want the private sector to do anything because we want a federal solution. And I say, you're, no, absolutely not, because these are millions of women that can have access to childcare while we're waiting for Washington to g…”
Goetz: Adopting communal tribal childcare helps children flourish
“Child care, if you think back to, like, what it was hundreds of years ago, it was, like, tribal, and now we're, like, left to do it on our own, or, like, Hopefully with a partner, but yeah, I felt like I brought that tribal mentality back, and it was incredibl…”
India views education as dignified work, but childcare as domestic help
“And the third biggest lesson for us was that in India, education is seen as dignified, but care is not. Ah, so care is seen as the helps, helps job.”
Haidt: Modern working women spend more hours on childcare than 1950s mothers
“There's an amazing statistic we found, that if you look at the total number of hours that women spent doing childcare in the 19 fifties, when very few of them worked outside the home, and you compare that to the total number of hours of childcare that they do …”
Childcare platforms struggle with tight margins between parent budgets and caregiver wages
“If you know the category that I'm working within is child care it's already an inherently margin-challenged kind of category. So what I mean by that is, like, what parents are willing and able to pay for this kind of work, and then what caregivers need to make…”
Collison: Reputation systems turn local services into online marketplace problems
“The problem of pest control is, is, is being turned into a marketplace problem or the problem of childcare. All these things that kind of, when you zoom out involve a significant coordination problem or sort of information asymmetry where reputation systems ca…”
Thompson: Modern parents lack reliable support networks, not just babysitters
“As I started to hear that, I realized that what people weren't talking about was just needing a sitter or nanny. What they were missing was this idea of their village. And so everyone says it takes a village to raise a child, but you know, all of us are moving…”
Thompson: Childcare support networks require vetting, matching, and scheduling
“And so for me, it was that if a village is a function of, you know, someone that you trust is a fit for your family from like a values standpoint and is there when you need them to be could you break it down from technology, from a vetting mechanism, a matchin…”