Sramana Mitra: Tell me about adoption trends you’re seeing in terms of colleges and universities working with you as well as alumni or those institutions adopting these kinds of courses. Ann Marie Sastry: It’s been fast. I banned any design folks looking at existing online platforms for EdTech. My feeling was that they were woefully
Sramana Mitra: What is the PR angle to this? Lily Stoyanov: We have an HR suite. The freelance marketplace is just one of the modules. We have freelancer/contingent workforce management software, which is something that comes after you hire freelancers from the freelance marketplace to manage the relationship with them over time and to use
Sramana Mitra: Now that I understand a bit better of what your technology is capable of doing, can you go back and explain to me what is the usage model of your customers? Let’s say a university buys your product. You started off by saying that universities don’t always have enough faculty to build an
Sramana Mitra: We are a completely remote company and we’ve been completely remote since 2010. When you started in 2016 as part of Virgin’s startup program, what were you going to do? Lily Stoyanov: In 2016, we already had a product. We already had customers.
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Sramana Mitra: Double-click down one more level for me and tell me how. Ann Marie Sastry: So, we do this by selecting articles, ranking, and then training algorithms to select articles that are closely related either by hand selection or by other means. Sramana Mitra: What are the sources of content that you’re applying algorithms
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