Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Can you discuss pricing for this K-12 data science training program? What kind of schools? Is this part of the curriculum now? Is data science being taught at a curriculum level? What’s the state of the union?

Josh Jones: I’d be happy to go much, much deeper into this area because it’s a passion point and it’s what I’m doing 24 hours a day right now. We were just in Virginia the last two days teaching 125 data science teachers from across the state. I’m in Chicago today meeting up with Data Science for Everyone, which is a nationwide initiative around getting data skills training in schools.

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you engineer your go-to-market organization to sell large deals to enterprises?

Josh Jones: We sell all the way down to a company hiring a single person. In fact, in our base level offering, you can get free tests. You start paying when you need larger volume and a single sign-on. A lot of our customers will do custom tests that are built to their systems or their specs.

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So who were these corporate customers? The corporate customers were not for this hiring interviewing tool. Then, you were selling something else besides this product, right?

Josh Jones: Yes, we had a number of customers that we talked to that expressed interest. The first interesting customer was one of the largest consulting firms in the world. We pitched this product to them and asked for their feedback. We said we’ll continue to build and adapt this to their needs.

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Okay, so we’re doing an Entrepreneur Journey story. I need a journey. So give me timelines. When did you do what and what led to what and so on. So, you were trying to do this business and your Alabama college education was from what year to what year? Seven years, you said.

Josh Jones: I was at the University of Alabama from 1998 until 2005.

Building a High-Impact EdTech Venture from Alabama: QuantHub CEO Josh Jones (Part 1)

Josh is building a Data Science training company from Alabama. It’s a very interesting model, going deep into high school level skill development in what the market needs today.

Sramana Mitra: Hi, Josh. It’s great to have you. Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised? What kind of background?

Bootstrapping a Generative AI Venture Using Services: Abhinav Girdhar, Founder CEO of Appy Pie (Part 1)

Abhinav has built a $15M+ ARR business by bootstrapping using services. Of his three products, one is a GenerativeAI design tool. Read on for more nuance.

Sramana Mitra: All right, Abhinav, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, where were you born, raised, what kind of background?

1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Artificial Intelligence

At 1Mby1M, one of the most popular courses these days is the Artificial Intelligence segment. These courses include case studies that involve discussions on opportunities and challenges in Generative AI domain.

Bootstrap an AI Startup First, Raise Money Later: Sean Minter, Founder CEO of AmplifAI (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What were the highlights of that journey? How long did you do it for? How big did it get and what happened to it?

Sean Minter: That company got to about $5 million in revenue. We actually sold it to a larger telecom entity called Birch Telecom.