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Technical Co-founder PlayTell
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You: Into mobile edutech startups. Solid tech background and/or programming experience, especially with iOS and RoR. A sense of humor that invokes just as many raised eyebrows as belly aching laughs. A strong desire to create well-loved, user-focused products that matter.Us: A small, fast-paced startup (3 people) in SF. Our backgrounds are Stanford CS + Harvard EDU (Tech in Ed) and Apple UX + CMU design. We've worked on the interface designs of the Apple products you love, created a children's program that won a Parents' Choice award, and led the flagship product team of a company that went public with a $1.5B market cap. Creating products people love is in our DNA.
The product: We're reimagining our learning and communication tools, starting with the tablet. Think FaceTime and games simultaneously. Kids get to read, play, and learn with their parents and grandparents while they're in a video call.
The app is iPad-only right now, built in objective C and Ruby on Rails. In time it will work across all platforms (web, android, surface, desktop and possibly even TV).
The biz: We're targeting a lucrative, untapped market: grandparents spend $52B/yr on their grandchildren. We're backed by Index Ventures, the first investors in Skype.
Your gig: Join our founding team. Work on interesting engineering problems, building a real-time synchronous experience that kids and adults love.
| Location: | 1346 Eddy St. San Francisco, CA 94115 United States |
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| Full Time | |
| Engineering / Product Dev / Science | |
| 1 | |
| iOS ebooks games communication RoR San Francisco Bay Area co-founder startup edutech education reading |
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PlayTell
PlayTell is an iPad video chat app composed of ebooks and games that connect kids and their baby boomer grandparents.
Beta Test / Clinical Trials 
< 5M RaisedInvestors: Index Ventures
All Jobs: at PlayTell
| Web Site: | www.playtell.com |
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| Headquarters: | 1346 Eddy St. San Francisco, CA 94115 United States |
| Employees: | 1-10 |
| 2012 | |
| Industry: | Software |
| We're using technology to help families connect on a deeper level. PlayTell's interactive playspace allows families to read together while in a video call, so they can engage as if they were together. Children can have "playdates" with Grandma, and mom gets a few precious moments to herself. Over 50 of grandparents live far away from their grandchildren. Despite the distance, they yearn to be part of their grandchildren's lives: they buy 25 of the 20B of toys and games sold in the US. |
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