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I’ve always wanted to build an education system that is free and open to all. I believe it is possible to do that, and also be a massive company in line with the Apples, Nikes, and Disneys of the world. But, it wouldn’t be easy and take some digging. In 2023, we explored several options for monetization — mainly sponsorships, venture, and government partnerships. Sponsorships we had pursued in 2022 for Projects -- things like affiliate deals and product placements (ex. Adobe paying us if we sent them users). We explored this in 2023 Nights & Weekends but felt like we could push it to a $2-3M a year business at max. Imagine it like Nights & Weekends is a live TV show — you can only sell so many placements. It caps out. So, we moved on from this idea pretty fast. Venture is the other angle we explored, and also the most obvious one. Every week it feels like I see one of our users tells us they raised money, got into YC, or something like that. And, everyone around us was telling us the s

Since the company started in 2018, my primary goal has been to never charge the end user. I’ve always wanted to build an education system that is free and open to all. I believe it is possible to do that, and also be a massive company in line with the Apples, Nikes, and Disneys of the world. But, it wouldn’t be easy and take some digging. In 2023, we explored several options for monetization — mainly sponsorships, venture, and government partnerships. Sponsorships we had pursued in 2022 for Projects -- things like affiliate deals and product placements (ex. Adobe paying us if we sent them user

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