Tinycare hires just the top 3% of its applicant pool, drawing experienced educators into the fold to lead a progressive, child-centered curriculum.
Despite running a newly launched company in an industry deeply impacted by Covid-19, Michael Lai’s business forecast looks bright.
The CEO and founder of Tinycare, a San Francisco-based network of micro-childcare centers that launched in 2018, says the company expanded by 500% since the beginning of the pandemic.
In college, Lai spent over three years volunteering with K-8 students before shifting his focus to a younger age group. Learning that 90% of a child's brain volume develops before kindergarten, the Harvard grad zeroed in on early education. “That was this a-ha moment for me. The science says [that] children are sponges. Everything in their environment affects them at those ages.”
An Early Education Passion