Mo Abbas

That's the world that's actually changing very quickly, especially with COVID.

The world that we imagine and we are building with Acadium is one where anyone with an internet connection can launch a career online.

as long as they have the motivation and will to, they can come to Acadium.

They can get access to courses, work experience, hiring relationships for free wherever they are.

And this enables economic mobility to anyone around the world.

And this is something we're very, very passionate about.

And the coolest part is particularly the people that benefit the most are the underprivileged, those that have barriers that are related to

socioeconomic barriers or geographical barriers, we remove them.

And we have tons of stories of apprentices who were able to launch new careers for free because of Acadium.

It was really hard at first.

We actually built a one-player mode.

It's a two-sided marketplace.

You have a chicken and egg problem.

And in our business, we focus on the student side.

We actually focus quite heavily on both sides.

But on the student side particularly, it was super important to get liquidity there.

So we built a whole course curriculum in digital marketing, got one side of the marketplace through some growth hacks that we knew.

And then we focused on the other side.

We had no revenue for a while.

We were close to death.