Vince Chan
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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So far, we've talked about your solution from the learner's perspective. But what about from the provider's perspective? When I say provider, I refer to training providers, coaches, consulting firms, and book authors. I'm trying to learn more about your firm. It seems like your solution is very versatile, working well with different types of education and learning providers.
And for these providers and partners, what pain points are you solving for them? If I come to you and say, hey, Vince, I want to build this product. I want to build this platform. I think your technology is right for me. But I'd like to know more about the specific differentiation you offer compared to other learning solutions. What would you say?
Yeah, I think usually, so I would say the clients fall in one of the two buckets, like broadly, in terms of why they find SparkWise useful for them. The first one is around just the level and the richness of interactions that are available virtually through SparkWise is much stronger than if they were to cobble together other tools like Zoom, then a whiteboarding tool and so on.
And in a very intuitive way that gets learners to just focus on the actual learning rather than be really distracted and overwhelmed by the amount of tools they have to toggle between. So the first set of partners want to use SparkWise because they want to bring an incredible learning experience to their clients that is interactive and they see SparkWise as a tool to do it.
The second group of partners that like us are the ones that are looking, they like the scalability value proposition that I told you earlier. For them, yeah, they can definitely, it's easy for a provider to host a group of, let's say, 10 to 15 people and do a very interactive session for them or do small group coaching. Those are all doable.
But when you need to deliver learning to thousands or tens of thousands of learners across enterprises or companies,
different types of industries like how do you actually do that in a cost-effective way in a flexible way that doesn't force the partners to now have an army of different facilitators on demand they can pull in right and so they see our solution as a way to really scale their business in a streamlined way the skill and interactiveness you mentioned for smaller groups is impressive
Recently, you announced a deal with Harvard Business Publishing to allow them to use your live group learning solution for their subscribers. Before you share more about that, I've noticed a trend with AI companies as AI and large language model technologies become more integrated into our daily lives.
These AI companies are teaming up with media firms because these media firms have a wealth of quality content. For example, OpenAI has partnered with The Atlantic and Perplexity has revenue sharing agreements with media firms like Time and Fortune for AI-driven searches. Education is another ecosystem rich in content.
When I heard about your collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing, I started connecting the dots. HBP has a huge library of quality content and access to top-tier authors. It seems to me that your technology could play a key role in unlocking hidden value from this content and bringing it to life for a broader audience. Is that your vision for this collaboration?
Or do you have other different expectations for it?
I think you synthesize it quite well here, but the things that I would add to it are a couple of things. So definitely agree that there's a lot of idle content out there today. And there is a, not all content needs this, but I think the content that people who, who that need to be fully absorbed and digested and applied in real life.
Simply reading is rarely the best way for people to actually understand those concepts. So with collaborations like someone like Harvard Business Publishing who've been a wonderful partner with us so far, we really do see an opportunity to allow their expertise to come to life and influence more lives. The second thing I would add is that especially with
AI, just raw content is truly getting commoditized. It was already in many ways commoditized, but now it's accessible in a way that it wasn't before AI, which means those with like distinctive expertise are looking for ways to further elevate how you deliver that experience above and beyond what people can get through simply asking. an LLM.
And so what we see is we're providing an alternative, a new way for people to engage with information and content that is human to human, that AI can't simply come in this place, that really gets people motivated to engage, that really creates aha moments because you're talking to other people. And hopefully through that, we allow people
the truly great thinkers' ideas and insights to get spread much more to different parts of the world.
It sounds like many of the thinkers and professors who publish articles through Harvard Business Publishing, along with book authors, could use these solutions to share their ideas and engage with learners and fans on a deeper level. That presents a huge potential, not just with large publishers, but also with platforms like Substack for newsletters or even podcast platforms.
I'm simply thinking out loud here, but for example, on platforms like Substack or in the podcasting space, many creators, including myself and yourself, could benefit from your technology. Independent book authors, podcasters, other content creators could use it to translate their content into a more interactive, community-based environment.
allowing for deeper engagement and sharing of thoughts, insights, and advice with their audiences.
Yeah, I think there's definitely a really interesting and promising opportunity there. Right now, we initially started by really focusing on, first, more of a B2B opportunity, also so that we can be focused on where we build our products and which features
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