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Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down on pricing in all these different products. How has your pricing evolved? What was the pricing on the first version, which was just masterclass style?
Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: So let’s double-click down on that. I’m not going to go into all the previous projects because it’s going to take time. You want to focus on the current one. Let’s start with the AI part of that. What is the AI part of what you’re doing in the current project?
Building an AI EdTech Company: College Guidance Network CEO Jon Carson (Part 1)
Jon has identified a gigantic hole in high school college counseling and is plugging it with AI.You have read interviews with the entrepreneurs behind Empowerly and Prepory, companies going after the same problem, but with more manual solutions. College Guidance Network is doing so with AI.
Bootstrapping an EdTech Startup with a Paycheck to over $5M: Karyn Koven, CEO of LanguageBird (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of numbers are we talking about as we go beyond 2015? How many numbers of students, how many instructors, how was the business unfolding?
Bootstrapping an EdTech Startup with a Paycheck to over $5M: Karyn Koven, CEO of LanguageBird (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: And what were the numbers? 10 people in the beginning, and then how did that grow?
Bootstrapping an EdTech Startup with a Paycheck to over $5M: Karyn Koven, CEO of LanguageBird (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who were these people that you got an audience with? Karyn Koven: I think it was because I had a background, and it was based on my reputation amongst other counselors and school officials. Sramana Mitra: They were referring students to you?
Bootstrapping an EdTech Startup with a Paycheck to over $5M: Karyn Koven, CEO of LanguageBird (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the beginning of LanguageBird. When you were thinking about doing this project, were you already thinking of it as an accredited language school that would serve as supplemental education?
Bootstrapping an EdTech Startup with a Paycheck to over $5M: Karyn Koven, CEO of LanguageBird (Part 1)
Karyn has built a technology-enabled business that is already over $5M in revenue and sits at the cusp of a tremendous scaling opportunity by leveraging AI. If you are mulling AI startup ideas, this kind of tech-enabled service that is fully optimized with AI could create tremendous value.
