For employees not to upskill is professional negligence

EdTech Founders

This is the 11th and final episode of the first season of EdTech Founders from EdTech Garage. Keep listening until the very end for a bonus remix from our DJ friend Ehsansation. Can you spot who is remixed?

In this episdoe we interview Marie Verchère, who is the co-founder and CEO of Upskyld a personalized learning app that uses audio to plug into downtimes for professionals. They are based in France and focusing on the corporate education market.

We talk about: Finding the right content to upskill, priorities in the great demission, the power of having a complementary team, building in public with a community of users, picking the right type of investors and more.

Outtakes from the conversation:

"Professionals are not taking the time to upskill themselves regularly and frequently. And they struggle to find the right content at the right time - actionable content to help them within their day to day job. We tackle the question of turning those professionals into lifelong learners."

"By 2030, professionals will be spending 30% of their time on training. So now is the perfect time for us to actually launch."

"For all employees not to upskill is like professional negligence, and they'll drown under a tsunami of unqualified content."

"We are very engaged with our first 10 to 15 users. They are a bit like our best friends and and we take care of them."

"We have zero content production, because we think it's not really that scalable."

"Never start with VCs… but maybe with smart money, and then business angels, and then VCs, especially when you're in such an early stage."

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