Sramana Mitra: I think I understand what your perspective is on online education. What kind of a company are you? Are you bootstrapped? Blake Garrett: We are funded but we use cash much more effectively than some of our competitors. I founded the company in late 2012 and I frankly didn’t have the development skills to
Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in your space as it pertains to online education? Blake Garrett: We are seeing this macro-trend from people moving from the classroom to online education. When we started three years ago, about 150,000 people took online driver’s education in Texas. Those numbers would be closer to 200,000 if normalized for
Blake discusses a unique area of online education: training for licenses of various kinds of vehicles, etc. using mobile apps. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Aceable. Blake Garrett: I’m the Founder of Aceable. Aceable is focused on licensure and certification training. We created a mobile-first platform that allows people