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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It’s a very interesting topic that you bring up. There are some observations I have on that. One is that some of the rock star teachers at top universities have their very popular courses on edX and Coursera. Then you have platforms like what LinkedIn is doing. Soon after they named me one
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch the line of questioning from what you are doing to more of the industry trend question. What open problems do you see in the industry right now where a new entrepreneur would be starting a company today? Instead of being 12 years into Course Hero, if you were starting
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What are we talking? When I talked to you five years ago, you were about a $10 million company. You had bootstrapped the company with a little bit of outside financing to almost $10 million in revenue in 2014. In 2018, what range are we talking? Andrew Grauer: In 2018, we’re in the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The bulk of your revenue, however, is coming from subscription. It’s a pure subscription-based business model at this point, right? Andrew Grauer: Correct. Our belief is that over the next decade, we believe that hundreds of millions of people will need to be able to learn and prove that they learned what they
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Can you double-click on what you are doing to address this situation? Andrew Grauer: We’ve evolved in building this learning platform. It’s a collection of millions of study resources. These are learning and teaching resources that are helping students in whatever they’re studying. The library has now grown to over 28 million resources.
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero (Part 1)
We interviewed Andrew on the Entrepreneur Journeys series five years back when Course Hero was at around $10 million in revenue. In 2018, the company’s website had 300 million visits. Revenue is approaching $100 million. And as for comparables, Pluralsight has gone public and has validated the business model of all-you-can-eat subscription-based online learning. Read on
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Dror Ben Naim, CEO of Smart Sparrow (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What are the emerging trends in the space and what are the open problems? If you were starting a company today, where would you start one? Dror Ben Naim: I’m a CEO of a company and I’ve got lot of people working for me. They would be very unhappy to hear that their
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Dror Ben Naim, CEO of Smart Sparrow (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What are you seeing in terms of adoption in the school systems? Dror Ben Naim: Everywhere we look, we’re seeing great interest in the area of personalized learning. It’s not just a buzzword. It’s a reality. What we also see is that certain schools are ahead of others. The classic example is to
