CareYaya Health Technologies

The BEST interview question ever. "What’s the most important thing you’ve learned from someone way older than you, or way younger than you?" 🤔 During the TODAY Show’s segment on LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups in America, LinkedIn’s Editor-in-Chief Daniel Roth highlighted CareYaya Health Technologies’s classic hiring question as an example of what the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in America are asking (starting at 2:56 in the clip!) Most companies will ask about your biggest weakness or where do you see yourself in five years. This question does something RADICALLY different - it reveals whether you're humble enough to learn from people society tells you aren't your "peers." It uncovers what resumes will rarely show: humility, curiosity, and intergenerational empathy. 💞 In caregiving, and in leadership, you can’t succeed if you only learn from your peers. The BEST people build relationships and learn across generations. I think what many leaders miss is that the 20-year-old intern might understand technology better than the CEO (I can single-handedly attest to that!! 🤣 ) The 60-year-old customer success veteran might have the best insights about building relationships. But we've created workplaces where wisdom doesn't flow between generations, missing the real learning that drives innovation. The companies winning right now aren't just hiring for skills - they're hiring for the ability to extract wisdom and insights from unexpected sources. In a world changing this fast, the person who can learn from EVERYONE, beats the person who learns only from peers. I've learned in years of building a fast-growing startup - hiring for skills gets you a good employee.... hiring for skills + EMPATHY gets you a great culture that lasts. We’re beyond thrilled that CareYaya was recognized among LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups for 2025... and even more proud that our "North Star" question resonated enough to make the TODAY Show (big thanks to Dan and the LinkedIn team for highlighting the intergenerational work!) 🙏 If you’re leading a team, try asking that question in your next interview. The answers might surprise you! SO, I'll pose the question to you guys - what’s the most important thing YOU'VE learned from someone way older than you, or someone way younger than you? Share it below, and your answer might change how someone else thinks about learning! #LinkedInTopStartups #TODAYShow #Hiring #Leadership https://lnkd.in/eEtqnM2R

A decade ago, I was the youngest partner at a hedge fund managing billions. Today, I'm building something bigger. ❤️ The pivot happened in my 30s, as I went through two major caregiving journeys for my loved ones. First through my grandfather's dementia, then through my wife's cancer battle. Caregiving teaches you a lot of things about yourself, and about others. And it taught me what the trillion-dollar care industry hasn't learned: people don't want industrial care. They want genuine human connection. CareYaya taps a massive, overlooked workforce - pre-health college students, screened, trained, and matched, often same-day when families are in crisis. It's affordable, dignified, and creates a pipeline of next-gen clinicians who understand caregiving before they enter the system. The math works for everyone: families save thousands of dollars monthly, students graduate debt-free with real patient experience, and America gets healthcare professionals who've actually cared for someone. LinkedIn just named us one of the Top 50 Startups in America in 2025! We're super thankful for the recognition. But the real reward? Watching thousands of young people discover their calling by serving elders in their own communities. JFK challenged Americans: "Ask not what your country can do for you." The 1960s gave us the Peace Corps. The 2020s need that same spirit - but directed at our own aging population. We're building America's Elder Corps: a movement that serves our most vulnerable at home, strengthens our communities, while shaping the healthcare leaders of tomorrow. America is aging fast. By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be over 65 - soon over 80 million people. Pair that with 63 million mostly unpaid family caregivers, struggling without training or relief - and you see the demand curve for home care exploding, while traditional supply can’t keep up. For investors & partners: This is a rare category inflection. Aging demand is compounding; caregivers are burning out; health systems need lower-cost, higher-touch supports; and policymakers are scrambling. Platforms that deliver speed to match, clinical quality, and real affordability will shape the next decade of care. We are rapidly widening our footprint, deepening AI-assisted matching and training, and partnering aggressively across America. If this resonates with any of you, please help us reach the families who need it: * Comment with the campus, clinic, or community we should partner with next * Repost so someone in your network finds care this week * DM me if you’re an investor or operator building in AgeTech or FamTech, home-based care, or caregiver enablement Here’s to scaling care that’s more human, more affordable, and ready for the demographic reality ahead. This isn't a "startup opportunity". It's the infrastructure play of our generation... and we're just getting started. My heart is full. Together, let's build a better future for care. ❤️ 🚀 🌟 #LinkedInTopStartups

We'll be at HLTH Inc. next week thanks to AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP! Reach out if you want to meet up!!

Rural hospitals have discovered that training teenagers is cheaper than flying in nurses who charge consulting-firm rates. Ballad Health in Tennessee spends $70 million annually on traveling nurses. (That's roughly $350,000 per traveling nurse. For context, some orthopedic surgeons make less.) Their radical solution? Partner with local high schools to train 16-year-olds as LPNs. The twist that made me both laugh and cry... Hospitals used to run their own nursing schools, then shut them down decades ago to "save money." Apparently, nobody did the math on what happens when you dismantle your talent pipeline - and then desperately need talent. Now Bloomberg Philanthropies is injecting $250 million to rebuild what we already had. These students graduate at 18 debt-free, earning $23/hour doing meaningful work. The students report loving it. Turns out that GenZ craves structure and purpose. Would 16-year-old you have jumped at real healthcare training with immediate job prospects? https://lnkd.in/eNUAu62n

I was talking with a friend recently about how different medicine feels today, and he said something that stuck with me: for over a century, doctors held a MONOPOLY on health knowledge. If you were sick, there was only one place to go, one authority to trust, one voice that carried weight. That monopoly shaped everything. Physicians built their authority on access to knowledge. It’s why the doctor’s word once carried a kind of sacred force in hospitals, families, and policy debates alike. “Doctor knows best” worked because no one else really had the information. But that foundation has cracked wide open. Patients Google symptoms before booking an appointment. Portals deliver lab results instantly, sometimes before the doctor has even seen them. And now, AI models are passing medical licensing exams, replicating at scale the expertise that was once the bedrock of the profession. The monopoly over knowledge - the CORNERSTONE of authority - has been broken. That leaves me asking: if authority in medicine no longer rests on controlling knowledge, then what SHOULD it rest on? Empathy? Judgment? The ability to navigate complex systems on behalf of patients? Or something else entirely? I’d love to hear from both patients and clinicians: what should the new basis of medical authority be in the 21st century?

For most of my life, I thought something was “wrong” with the way my mind worked. I’d dive headfirst into ideas, lose track of time chasing tangents, and struggle to finish the simple, linear tasks that everyone else seemed to manage with ease. Only later did I realize that those same tendencies (what others might call "distractibility"!) were the fuel behind much of my creativity and innovation. This article in Science News on ADHD and “hypercuriosity” really resonated with me. Researchers are beginning to understand that what looks like impulsivity or scattered thinking may, in fact, be a heightened drive to explore - to connect seemingly unrelated dots and to follow questions wherever they lead. It made me think about how much of our culture, especially in schools and workplaces, is built around SUPPRESSING those instincts! We label them as *deficiencies* instead of asking whether they might be untapped strengths. Yet when I look back, many of the most original ideas I’ve pursued came not from linear focus, but from allowing my mind to wander, through rabbit holes, late-night reading, and conversations that veered off script. I know I’m not alone. Many of you probably recognize this in yourselves, or in a child, a friend, or a colleague. The challenge isn’t simply to “manage” ADHD traits, but to create spaces where hypercuriosity is not just tolerated, but EMBRACED as a different way of learning and creating. Sometimes, the messy, nonlinear paths are the ones that lead us somewhere entirely new. ❤️ 🌟 🚀 What do you think?