Founder-in-Residence

Summary

Join Platform Venture Studio as a Founder-in-Residence to leverage technology, including AI and LLMs, to transform the dental workforce. Lead this initiative by exploring innovative AI-driven solutions to address challenges like labor shortages, job dissatisfaction, and high turnover. Focus on identifying opportunities to optimize processes using AI/LLMs in areas such as on-demand job matching, skill assessment, credentialing, workforce management, communication, and scheduling. The program offers validated startup ideas, initial capital, access to an investor network, a structured glide path to success, a talented remote-first studio team, shared operational functions, access to a network of advisors, coaching, and compensation. Ideal candidates possess coachability, sales aptitude, ambiguity tolerance, venture-backed experience, and technical comfort with software concepts and AI technologies. Do not pitch your idea; instead, focus on your motivation and problem-solving approach.

Requirements

• Being coachable is crucial for startup founders
• It's about being open to learning, adapting, and growing from feedback
• Successful founders refine their vision through continuous feedback, improving both their product and their sales strategies
• Coachability keeps you aligned with the market, ready to pivot, and committed to solving problems in the best way possible
• It’s a key trait that shows you’re ready for the startup journey
• Sales are everything in the early days of a startup
• From fundraising to hiring to closing deals, everything revolves around selling
• Instead of focusing on elaborate systems, start selling right away—get out there, make calls, and close deals
• Sales aptitude is essential for getting your business off the ground
• Embracing ambiguity is vital for startup founders
• High ambiguity tolerance means being comfortable with uncertainty and staying adaptable
• It’s about moving forward confidently even when the path isn’t clear, which is essential in the unpredictable world of startups
• We are seeking people with entrepreneurial experience - ideally as former founders but at least some experience working at a high-growth, venture-backed startup
• We are not necessarily looking for an engineer (the Platform team has several)
• However, you must have sufficient comfort with software concepts that you can make smart technology choices, discuss technical concepts, and translate market/user needs into software concepts
• This is particularly true as it relates to both the possibilities and limitations of current AI technologies, particularly LLMs

Responsibilities

• Explore innovative ways to use AI-driven solutions to solve key challenges in the dental industry workforce, including the insufficiency of labor supply, job dissatisfaction, and high turnover
• Identify opportunities where AI / LLMs can optimize processes such as on-demand, job matching, skill assessment, credentialing, workforce management, communication, and scheduling

Benefits

• Validated startup idea : A clear, unmet need in the real estate market with significant de-risking
• Initial capital and access to our investor network : You will receive the funding needed to get off the ground and the backing of our extensive network of investors
• Tried and true glide-path to success : We provide a roadmap of specific, measurable milestones to guide your journey, based on our extensive experience in building startups
• Talented, flexible, remote-first studio team : Our team brings deep expertise in design, engineering, research, talent, and growth to help you build, launch, and iterate efficiently
• Shared ops, HR, and G&A functions : Including legal, finance, etc., to let you focus on building
• Access to Platform Guild : Our network of ~80K trusted advisors and subject-matter experts
• Coaching : Continuous guidance to keep you on track
• Compensation : While the primary motivation to build a startup should be the upside from ownership, we will compensate you for your time