Throughout school, memorization is a key theme for many classes. People use everything from flash cards to repetition methods to remember key terms from different courses. While these ways have worked for decades, there has always been a demand for universally accessible and easily creatable material concerning this subject. These two main ideals were instrumental when Andrew Sutherland created the online quiz platform called Quizlet. While this website is now a household name, at its creation in 2005, this idea was revolutionary. You could now easily create online flashcards that could be shared and viewed across the internet.

Sutherland originally created Quizlet to assist him with his French homework as a sophomore in high school. After receiving attention and popularity concerning his first site, Sutherland began to realize the  potential of such an idea. Over the next 15 years, Andrew studied computer science at MIT and scaled his business incredibly. The site now has over 300 million quiz sets and over 30 million monthly participants. For many, Quizlet is a life saver for studying and memorizing. Sutherland found a pain in his own life and realized it was a universal need for students across the world.