Matthew Glotzbach
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That was led by Icon Ventures.
Well, so it was really to go after the opportunity, right?
The opportunity is so massive and we've amassed this very large user base.
this massive content base, which are two key assets.
But then third is we have more study data on how real people are studying and learning than anyone else on the planet, right?
We do over a billion learning transactions per week.
And so a learning transaction is I ask you a question, Quizlet asks you a question, you give Quizlet an answer, and then Quizlet gives you feedback.
So we've got literally billions and billions of data points on how people learn, what the most effective and efficient
paths are.
And so where we're really directing our efforts going forward, and the reason we pushed to raise some additional funding to scale the efforts,
Obviously, the international expansion that I talked about, but then also really building up our data science and machine learning capabilities to create this AI based tutor.
And so what we're the longer term vision of what we're doing is taking all of that data in this great user platform and building an AI based tutor that will help anyone learn anything.
So we're a little over 100 people here in mostly here in SF with a few a few folks scattered scattered around.
And that's been growing pretty significantly.
When I started, the company was right around 30 or so people.
So we've more than tripled the team in the last two years.
Sure.
You know, and this is where I think we've got a lot of tailwind because the way the world is going, you know, we used to be in a world where
You went to school, you know, well, frankly, you know, our parents' generation, you went to school for 12 years, you had a high school diploma, you were set.
That was a great middle-class job.