Our education system has stayed pretty much the same as it was two hundred years ago. This is not a bad thing, considering that there are only a small amount of proven ways to actively engage student’s learning abilities. As technology advances, educators are now trying new techniques to improve the ways that students learn in the classroom. With this increase in technology, students are finding it easier to memorize terms and concepts thanks mostly to one of the fastest growing education sites in the world, Quizlet. Quizlet was founded by Andrew Sutherland in 2007 when he was 22 to be a resource to help student study for test and exams. His initial idea for Quizlet came when he was 15 when he created a platform to help him for a quiz. Since then, it has grown to be one of the top 100 sites used around the world. Not only does the company bring in over $10 million per year, it has seen exponential expanses in its user base year over year with a 2 million user increase every month.
Sutherland’s story is one that many young entrepreneurs seem to face. By creating something that either a small group of people want or that they are passionate about, they realize that they can turn their idea into a large business. After creating Quizlet in high school, Sutherland saw its success and made the difficult decision to drop out of MIT in order to grow the business into what it is today. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to do both well,” he says. “I saw how big Quizlet was getting, how many people were using it and how big an impact it could have for millions of students.” Not only does the platform target students like it did back in 2007 at launch, it has introduced teacher tools that can be accessed through various subscription models. Sutherland’s willingness to bring an idea that he had into reality has created him overwhelming amounts of success and the difficult choices that he has made throughout his life continue to drive him to make Quizlet the best platform it can be.
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www.studybreaks.com/college/talking-andrew-sutherland-founder-quizlet/
www.mogulpedia.com/person/andrew-sutherland/
sion was film. His mother and Anu Aunty were adamant that he should think about how making meaningless videos would risk everything. With fear of shaming his mother and failing in the film industry, Agarwal decided to pursue engineering. Unfortunately, he failed in this industry because the material left him uninterested and wanting more. After graduating with an engineering degree, Agarwal decided to take a different approach, not thinking instead of thinking, because he already failed. As a result, he co-founded a company that sells school and college merchandise in India at the age of twenty-two with his friend Rohn Malhotra. Alma Mater began at zero, but grew to be an impressive million dollar company working with over 400 schools and colleges across India. The idea began when they had a desire to donate to their high school. Charitable donations quickly developed into selling merchandise as a way for schools to receive more funding.
cause, Keller and Quinn expanded their enterprise to incorporate customers directly through a college ambassador program. It began with a bus tour across the nation stopping at college campuses to sell, and then transport the students to local hospitals to deliver the gifts first hand. On top of this, product offerings have broadened to blankets, apparel, accessories, even bling for pets, and beyond.
Ortiz uses this business as a platform to raise awareness of the injustice he’s seen and experienced while incarcerated. The goal of this venture is to help redeem society by pointing to an enormous problem that the majority of the population overlooks. The business itself is primarily run by Tony Ortiz, but also consists of a few other employees and many volunteers whom help with education programs and coaching for recently released prisoners. Redemptive Revolution aims to keep people out of prison to begin with, and also to aid those whom have been incarcerated in the process of “getting back on their feet”. The long and painful process he went through to turn his life into a success, Ortiz is now sharing with his community, and hopefully he will eventually cause desperately needed widespread impact in society.
