Anand Iyer on The Childcare App That Pairs Busy Parents With Trusted Care Givers
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Since you aren't going to entrust your home and children to just anyone, what do you do when you need a highly qualified babysitter on short notice?
Anand Iyer founded the company, Trusted, to help parents answer this question.
He's designed a sitter service that employs vetted caregivers and created an app to pair parents with these Trusted sitters whenever they need them most.
Listen in as he talks about it in today's podcast.
Here are some snippets of what you'll hear:
* The three types of situations in which childcare is needed and how Trusted can help you find the right sitter for each one
* The preemptive work that goes into ensuring Trusted employs only the highest quality care givers
* Trusted's areas of service and where they plan to expand
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.9 | Future Technologies always to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. |
| 0:17.7 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, |
| 0:23.0 | blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.8 | Hey, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. My guest today is Anand, Iyer, founder and CEO |
| 0:32.4 | of UsTrusted.com. We're going to be talking about a child care app. |
| 0:38.2 | Anand, how you doing? |
| 0:39.6 | Well, how are you? |
| 0:40.8 | Good. |
| 0:41.2 | Thanks so much for being on the show. |
| 0:42.8 | So would you give folks an idea of, you know, what you do and what the application is? |
| 0:48.3 | Good thing, yeah. |
| 0:49.6 | So Trusted is a managed marketplace for child care, and the thesis behind the service of software |
| 0:58.4 | that make it really convenient, busy working parents to find child care, whether it's |
| 1:04.6 | short term or long term or episodic child care and make it make it easy for them to find child care. |
| 1:11.8 | They're using the app. |
| 1:13.4 | And then, of course, for qualified caregivers to find work as well. |
| 1:17.5 | Okay, so it's for both sides. |
| 1:19.1 | It's for the caregivers and the parents that want to find child care, right? |
| 1:22.9 | That's right. |
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