Lightyear

Telecom made easy

company type:

Business/Productivity Software

Year founded:

2019

CEO:

Dennis Thankachan

co-Founder(s):

Ryan Schrack: Co-Founder & CTO

Lead seed investors:

Amplo, Susa Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Operator Partners, and Mark Cuban

founding customers:

Campus Apartments, Curology, Hack Reactor, Lime, Roadrunner Transportation Systems, StockX

office environment:

Remote-first, with co-working space on the East Coast

Business/Productivity Software

Year founded:

2019

CEO:

Dennis Thankachan

co-Founder(s):

Ryan Schrack: Co-Founder & CTO

company type:

Lead seed investors:

Amplo, Susa Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, Operator Partners, and Mark Cuban

founding customers:

Campus Apartments, Curology, Hack Reactor, Lime, Roadrunner Transportation Systems, StockX

office environment:

Remote-first, with co-working space on the East Coast

about the CEO

"We are building Lightyear to make telecommunications about the customer, not the enrichment of the service provider."

Dennis Thankachan

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what makes you proud to lead your company?

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what i'm currently obsessed with

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

Dennis Thankachan

Why did you create your business?

Three of the 10 most hated companies in the United States are telecom providers. We are building Lightyear to make telecommunications about the customer, not the enrichment of the service provider. We believe that companies should be able to buy internet access on the internet in a customer-centric, fully transparent manner.

what makes you proud to lead your company?

I am ridiculously grateful to work with 14 of the best individuals I've ever worked with in my career! Telecom is not the sexiest market, but it's a gargantuan and highly consequential one. At Lightyear, we've attracted the best engineers and GTM people on the market and have them hellbent on fundamentally transforming the sector. As a team, we've underwritten a shared set of values and goals that connect the company.

what i'm currently obsessed with

Luka Doncic's round 1 playoff performance

careers

actively hiring?

Yes

talent needs in the next 12 months

Sales and Engineering

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