David Dobochnikov
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We have today 15,000 paying customers and about 1.5 million users in general.
Yeah, so scholarship policy is leveraging technology to increase the chances of earning private and external scholarship for American students.
To use the premium features of the platform, the students are paying a subscription fee, which is $15 a month.
And for that, basically, we save a huge amount of time for them, preventing them from applying to scams or scams
finding the scholarship that match them the best way possible.
We have today 15,000 paying customers and about 1.5 million users in general.
So with some partnerships and other things, you know, with some B2B partnerships as well, we do a bit more than that.
So the thing is that a common misconception is that students need scholarships only when they're just applying to college.
But the reality is that students actually need scholarships more in the first year of college and the second year than they
in high school.
Because many of the financial aid that they get is only for the first year.
And they can use private scholarships to pay for a board, for books and other things they need in college as well.
And there's no limit to how many scholarships you can earn throughout your whole education.
So it's true that the majority of our users today are high school seniors.
But
Basically, many of our users are between the ages of 16 and 26.
So the company was launched in 2015.
2015, it wasn't.
We didn't have any revenue.
We've been bootstrapped, but we were trying to figure out what would be the model.