What I learned at Socratic

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The second in a series of posts about building companies and teams. Preceeded by "What I learned at Venmo", and followed by "What I learned at Google". By the time I left Venmo in 2013, I had started thinking about education - what I thought was the "root solution" to the disparate problems in the world. Though I hadn't set out to start a company, I soon met someone I instantly and deeply connected with (at a job interview - he was the interviewer), and we decided to build something new together. Over the next 7 years, we built two products that have been used billions of times by hundreds of millions of students, assembled an amazing team and built a company culture we loved, executed a pivot that completely changed the product while retaining our core mission, got acquired by Google, and started powering their biggest products. From the beginning, and through multiple products, we focused on the same user and moment: a student studying by themselves at home, looking for help with the

What I learned at Socratic ← SHREYANS.ORG WHAT I LEARNED AT SOCRATIC September 22, 2020 The second in a series of posts about building companies and teams. Preceeded by " What I learned at Venmo ", and followed by " What I learned at Google ". By the time I left Venmo in 2013, I had started thinking about education - what I thought was the "root solution" to the disparate problems in the world. Though I hadn't set out to start a company, I soon met someone I instantly and deeply connected with (at a job interview - he was the interviewer), and we decided to build something new together. Over t

What I learned at Socratic

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