Amanda DoAmaral, Fiveable

Amanda DoAmaral was an educator herself before she decided to found a tech company aimed at improving the education system. That's a surprisingly rare credential for a startup founder in this area to possess — despite the obvious benefits of real, first-hand experience. Her company, Fiveable, focuses on modernizing (including a remote-first approach) a key and often overlooked part of education for students: Building an active community of peers to share knowledge with. Hear how she took her dissatisfaction with an inadequate system and turned that into the motivation to build a venture-scale business outside of it.

Links for this episode:

• Fiveable
• Fiveable makes first acquisition: A virtual study tool built by a 16-year-old
• Edtech’s next mission: Go everywhere

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