Avni Patel Thompson at the Seattle Female Founders Conference

Summary

Avni Patel Thompson, the CEO and Founder of Poppy, spoke at the 2018 Seattle Female Founders Conference. Poppy is a platform that connects parents with caregivers for their children. Avni and her co-founder went through Y Combinator in 2016. Poppy's mission is to build a modern village for families by connecting them with talented caregivers. Avni started Poppy because she personally experienced the challenges of finding reliable childcare when both parents are working and there is no family support nearby. She believed that technology could help solve this problem, even though she had no prior experience in software development. Avni's main motivation was to address the broken aspects of parenthood.

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