Dutch Student Entrepreneurs Building a Large Scale EdTech Marketplace: StuDocu CEO Marnix Broer (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Did you build the platform yourself?

Marnix Broer: Yes. I started with Jacques. He was my roommate in the student house. Soon we needed someone to build the website. That’s when I knocked on the door of my old friend from high school who was also studying in Delft.

Later on, we saw that he was great at that. He also had a friend helping him out. They joined us. That’s how we bootstrapped the first website. As soon as we had the first documents up, it went like wildfire. Everybody started using it in just a couple of weeks. Then we got requests from students in other cities. They gave their documents. We put them online.

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