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Daniel Hanover shared thisYesterday we took out a full-page ad in The New York Times for dentures. Not exactly the category you expect to see taking over a page in the Business section, but roughly 1 in 8 Americans rely on them and almost nobody talks about them outside dentistry. I’ve always thought that was odd. A denture is one of the most personal things a person wears. It affects how they eat, speak, smile, and whether they feel like themselves sitting across the table from their family. So why have dentures been made largely the same way for decades? We’ve spent a lot of time at Dandy changing that. That work became Dandy Fusion™ Dentures. It combines a digitally engineered base with hand-poured acrylic, so dentists don’t have to make the same trade-offs between precision, appearance, and repairability. It took years to get there. Figured it was worth putting the conversation in front of a few more people.
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Daniel Hanover reposted thisDaniel Hanover reposted thisToday we're introducing Dandy Fusion™ Dentures: the first denture to fuse hand-poured acrylic with digital precision. For over a decade, delivering a full denture meant navigating trade-offs in appearance, fit, and turnaround time. That choice ends today. Fusion brings hand-finished acrylic and digital precision into one workflow, so your practice can deliver: → Full dentures in as little as 5 days, with only 2 appointments. → Hand-poured acrylic for lifelike gingiva with subtle, natural variation. → A digitally designed fit for fewer chairside adjustments. → Dentures that support relines and repairs for long-term care. Every Fusion denture is made in our U.S. labs, so your patients keep their current dentures right up until the new ones are ready. When the fit is right and the finish looks natural, your patient leaves with more than a new denture. They leave with the confidence to smile without a second thought. Discover Dandy Fusion™ Dentures today. Link in comments.
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Daniel Hanover reposted thisDaniel Hanover reposted thisLast week marked my sixth year at Dandy. I had actually only meant to stay at Dandy for a year. I joined at the peak of COVID, when companies had just started resuming their technical hiring pipelines. I figured I'd spend a year here and then jump along to something else, because that's just what I thought I was supposed to do. I did not anticipate just how much I'd learn and how many things I'd be allowed to touch. I've met people who were brilliant beyond their years. I've gotten to see real software that I built running on real hardware at real dental offices, on real patients, making a real difference in real people's lives. As a kid, I always looked at computers with bewilderment, in awe that somebody had to write all of that. I never thought that I'd get to be the one writing it. I especially never thought that I'd be paid to do it. It is really crazy how quick the years sneak up on you. I'm beyond thankful for everybody who has spent the time to help me grow, and bring the lessons they taught me to everybody I get to help grow.
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Daniel Hanover posted thisAll of our customers were suddenly leaving us and we didn't know why. After 124 phone calls, one said five words to me that revealed why and saved the company. In 2022, the business was scaling fast, like 600% annualized growth fast. Then churn started spiking, and none of our other numbers moved with it. Normally, when customers start leaving, something shows up in the data first. This time, nothing did. Our remake rate was the lowest it had ever been, and on-time delivery looked great. Every metric we tracked said the product was in the best shape of its life, but customers were leaving anyway. So I picked up the phone and called over a hundred of them to ask why. The last thing I expected to hear was that we had a quality problem. If our quality had dropped, our remake rate should have gone up. Instead, a customer told me: "Your crowns look like marshmallows." They said that our crowns had started coming out bulky and soft, with no definition. They had stopped looking like teeth and started looking like marshmallows. The catch is that if you introduce an error that makes a crown larger than it should be, it may not increase your remake rate. The dentist can typically fix it themselves by drilling it down and carving away the excess. So all that extra bulk was completely invisible to the one number we ran the entire company against. The bigger problem was that our designers had figured that out. They were measured on remake rate, and adding a little mass to a crown made that number better. So month after month, the crowns got bulkier, our dashboards got greener, and our actual quality fell off a cliff. Our quality was collapsing, and every metric we had was celebrating. That phone call was the beginning of Dandy's hardest year. Then 2023 became our reckoning. We vertically integrated our manufacturing and rebuilt how we design crowns from the ground up. Today I don't trust a single number to tell me our quality is good. We pull real units off the line and inspect them with our own eyes. Because a dashboard will never tell you your customer is unhappy before your customer does.
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Daniel Hanover reposted thisDaniel Hanover reposted thisWe’re hiring two product leaders to digitize a $400B industry hiding in plain sight, one every human depends on. Dandy is the first AI-powered dental lab. We brought digital scanning, AI-powered design, and in-house manufacturing together under one roof, and built it for thousands of dental practices. Now we're taking that international. And what works in one country doesn't simply work in ten. Suddenly you're dealing with new currencies, new healthcare rules, new payment rails, and enterprise customers running hundreds of practices at once, each doing things their own way. That's not one product problem. It's two. So we're hiring for both. 1. Senior Product Manager — You'll own the software dentists and their staff touch every day, and make it work across new markets: payment processors, practice-management integrations, and compliance in every region. If it touches the practice, it's yours. 2. Director, Enterprise Product Management — You'll own the entire product line for our largest customers, the Dental Support Organizations running hundreds of practices at once. That means building for every layer of the org, from the executives signing the deal to the dentists in the chair. Both roles are remote in the US, and both start hands-on. This is not management from the sidelines. You'll build before you manage. We want product leaders who look at "operationally complex, multi-country, multi-stakeholder" and see the best work of their career. If that sounds like you, links to apply are below 🦷
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Daniel Hanover shared thisWe just invented something that breaks the age-old tradeoff dentists face between beauty and cost. Half the dentists we surveyed this year told us aesthetics is the number one reason they send a case to another lab. 90% said they want crowns with natural, lifelike color. The demand was always there, but the price was what stood in the way. If you wanted a beautiful crown, the answer was porcelain, or a boutique lab, or driving your patient in for an in-person shade match. All of it costs more, and all of it takes longer. Somewhere along the way, the industry decided beauty was a premium feature, and everyone stopped questioning it. I never bought that "looks real" and "affordable" had to be opposites. So we spent three years, with hundreds of people across seven countries, building a way to break it. We call it Polychromatic Shade™. We became the first lab in the industry to apply color to a crown digitally, with precision measured in microns, instead of having a person hand-paint every single one. Now dentists hold one of these crowns up to the light, and the first thing they say is, "Wait, this isn't porcelain?" I've also gotten "This has to be $400." Nope. It costs the same as an ordinary crown. A patient shouldn't get a worse smile because they walked into a practice with a smaller budget. Quality is not a luxury, and I won't build a company that treats it like one.
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Daniel Hanover shared thisIn 2025, we lost over $2M because of a bat. We were building the world's first fully automated dental lab in Provo, Utah. It was early in the build, and things were finally starting to click. I thought I had braced for every kind of setback a project like this can throw at you. Wildlife was not on the list. One morning, I woke up to a call at 6 AM from our Head of Manufacturing. He told me we had a bat in our facility. I laughed, thinking it was a joke. It soon became very clear to me it wasn't. Utah, it turns out, is full of bats, and one had gotten into the building. Bats carry rabies, so the moment we found them, the entire facility became a health hazard. Nobody could set foot inside. So we did the only thing we could. We took the whole factory offline. I spent the next few days on the phone with bat control, wildlife specialists, and practically everyone involved in the build. It was a brutal stretch. Every day that building sat empty, we were bleeding money. About a week later and millions down the drain, we were finally running again. Fast forward three years, our factory produces close to 100,000 crowns a month on a fully automated line. Walking through it now, it's hard to believe the whole thing once got shut down by a bat. This experience taught me that when you build in the physical world, the setback that gets you is almost never the one you planned for. You can map every risk you can think of, and something you never imagined will still walk right through the door. You can't predict all of it. All you can do is take it one step at a time when it shows up. Would I do it again? Absolutely. But this time I'd install the bat nets on day one.
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Daniel Hanover shared thisI wore braces for ten years. Headgear at night, rubber bands, four different appliances before somebody finally said we were done. The company I built exists so fewer people have to go through the same pain. I had severe dental problems growing up, and the care was a mess. The missing tooth in this photo was just the beginning of it. What I remember most is how much of it was just spent waiting in pain. My orthodontist would take X-rays, and then weeks would pass, and eventually they'd get e-mailed to the oral surgeon, and then I'd wait for an appointment where I mostly found out we were repeating what we did last time. My providers never talked to each other and were always in a hurry. There were stretches of excruciating pain that lasted weeks. It wasn’t that any one person was doing a bad job. The system was broken. Nobody was connected, and I was the only thing linking them together. People know Dandy as a dental technology company. We build AI, robotics, and automated factories to make dental prosthetics. What many don't know is that it all started with my own teeth. It’s why we care so deeply about speed and obsess over the customer experience. We know that even the smallest delay or unnecessary handoff can make dental care harder than it needs to be, so we work relentlessly to remove them. Today, a dentist working with Dandy can call one of our lab technicians, make adjustments to a crown together, and watch the design change on screen in real time. Nothing gets mailed away, and there’s no guessing whether everyone is working from the same information. The faster and more connected we make dental care, the fewer people end up stuck the way I was. That’s the kind of system I needed growing up. Now we’re building it for everyone else.
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Daniel Hanover reposted thisDaniel Hanover reposted thisWe drove a taco truck to 60 dental practices across Northern California this past month. It turned into one of our best GTM campaigns yet. Dandy on the Road just wrapped its NorCal run, bringing live demos (and tacos) directly to dental practices. Dentists were able to watch the scanner work in real-time and see why more practices are switching to Dandy. A huge thank you to every team that welcomed Dandy on the Road into their office! Next stop: Southern California. Which city should we visit next? Drop it in the comments.
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Daniel Hanover liked thisDaniel Hanover liked thisToday we’re unveiling our drone delivery program powered by DoorDash Air. It’s the first autonomous drone system built to serve merchants, designed for the vast majority of orders on DoorDash. We designed the aircraft and drone packaging around what we’ve learned from 14 billion lifetime orders: unique insights about what people actually order, how much those orders weigh, and how far it has to travel. The drone we built is as silent as a passing car, equipped with six propellers that are designed to limit noise. Early tests show that we’ve gotten flight delivery times in under 5 minutes on average, and the customer can follow their order with the drone with unparalleled precision. Our first deliveries will be in Northern California, and we’re proud to have Chipotle Mexican Grill, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, and local restaurants among our first partners. We’re ready for takeoff! If you want to work on hard problems like this at massive scale, join us: https://lnkd.in/g_eZ5g52
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Daniel Hanover liked thisThat’s my company! That’s my Doc! That’s what my teams do all day, every day. We serve patients. We deliver smiles. Beyond proud. Beyond inspired.Daniel Hanover liked thisWe sat down with a dentist who fits dentures and seats crowns for 40,000 patients in recliners, wheelchairs, and sometimes even their own beds. Here's how he does it: On The Margin Line, Dr. Nathan Suter joined Joe Lynch to explain how Enable Dental built a company around the patients most of dentistry isn't set up to serve: seniors in memory care, homebound adults, and people with disabilities and complex medical needs. Enable doesn't operate vans or mobile clinics. Their teams carry equipment originally built for the military to use in the field, walk it into a memory care facility or a patient's living room, and stand up a full dental operation for the day. Then they pack down and drive to the next stop, up to three times a day. Today they run 27 hubs across 12 states, including 6,000 denture cases a year. Dentures are where the math gets interesting. Most of Enable's patients can't make multiple trips to a clinic. Every extra visit means more logistics, more transportation, more chances a case never gets finished. So Nathan ran a six-month pilot with Dandy across 15 clinicians to see if a digital workflow could change the equation. The results: - Turnaround time dropped by 50% - 1.5 fewer visits per case, on average - Net Promoter Scores went up 10 points Then Enable rolled it out to 65 more providers. Patients noticed the technology — even seniors who'd worn dentures for decades remembered the gag of an alginate impression and were impressed by a 3D scan. The experience itself became part of the care. The full conversation with Joe Lynch covers how Enable built the logistics behind portable dentistry, why dental innovation has overlooked this population for so long, and what value-based dental care could look like for seniors over the next decade. Listen to The Margin Line, available now. Episode link below 👇
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Daniel Hanover liked thisThe dirty secret in removable prosthodontics? We’ve spent the last 15 years trading one clinical shortcoming for another. We swapped pour-ups for milling pucks, and wax rims for digital trays—yet we still argued over bonded vs. printed teeth, brittle resins, and aesthetic limits. While we’re undergoing "digital transformation”, we’re still playing within the same boundaries. @Dandy took the trade-offs most of the field quietly tolerated and built a process differently. If you care about where restorative dentistry is heading, pay attention to this. What an exhilarating time to be in dentistry! Kenn Butler Keith Bourne, CPXP, CRCR Joe LynchDaniel Hanover liked thisEvery morning, 1 in 8 Americans put their teeth in. Today, our founders, Daniel Hanover and Toni Oloko, wrote to them. A full-page ad in The New York Times on why we built Dandy Fusion™ Dentures. If you wear dentures, love someone who does, or fit them for a living, this letter is for you. meetdandy.com/nyt
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Daniel Hanover liked thisDaniel Hanover liked thisDandy is rebuilding dental prosthetics with robotics, AI and materials science, targeting a faster, more reliable process for dentists and patients. The company says its new dentures can be delivered in two appointments instead of the traditional five or six, as it works to modernize the high-mix, low-volume manufacturing process behind dental restorations. FOUNDERS: Daniel Hanover & Toni Oloko HQ: New York City, New York #VentureCapital #Dandy #DanielHanover #ToniOloko #TradedVC
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Daniel Hanover liked thisDaniel Hanover liked thisDandy will be the largest dental company in the world. VCs and Founders talk a lot about the impact robotics and AI will have on high mix, low volume manufacturing industries. Nothing gets more high mix and low volume than dental prosthetics. The team at Dandy has obsessed over two customers: the dentist and the patient. Dentists need restorations that fit, a lab they can rely on, and fewer appointments spent fixing problems. Patients want to eat, speak, and smile without their dentures becoming the center of their lives. That focus led Dandy to rebuild the process from scan to finished product. Today, they’re introducing dentures designed to take two appointments instead of the traditional five or six. We all know that better, faster, cheaper is the strongest value proposition a company can have. In high mix, low volume environments that is extremely challenging. Over the last 18 months though, Dandy has had dozens of breakthroughs in material science, robotics and AI to bring this vision to life in a precision manufacturing market that nearly no one knows about, but almost everyone experiences in their daily lives. The hard work and determination that this team has had to bring these products to market will not only have an impact on peoples smiles globally, but much more is to come.
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Daniel Hanover liked thisDaniel Hanover liked thisEvery morning, 1 in 8 Americans put their teeth in. Today, our founders, Daniel Hanover and Toni Oloko, wrote to them. A full-page ad in The New York Times on why we built Dandy Fusion™ Dentures. If you wear dentures, love someone who does, or fit them for a living, this letter is for you. meetdandy.com/nyt
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Daniel Hanover liked thisDaniel Hanover liked thisWe're coming to Florida next month with a game-changer for dentists. It lets patients go home with a perfect denture in just 2 visits. Join us for Dandy Live: Tampa on Sunday, October 18 for a hands-on CE training event all about mastering the 2-appointment digital denture. This workflow is actively helping practices reclaim chair time without ever compromising on fit or esthetics. You'll walk away with 3 CE credits and a clear, repeatable process you can bring straight back to the operatory the very next day. Seats are limited, secure your spot today! Link in the comments.
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Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
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The Base Dependent Behavior of Kaprekar’s Routine: A Theoretical and Computational Study Revealing New Regularities
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See projectIndependently conducted mathematical and statistical research on a mathematical phenomenon known as Kaprekar's Constant. Devised a series of programs in C++ to derive novel experimental results on the applications of Kaprekar's Constant in a wider domain than previously explored. Paper pending publication
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