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Competitor language apps focus too heavily on discipline and daily streaks
“Other language learning apps are very academic, they're all about discipline and like, you know, keeping up a daily streak, and, you know, it's this very, very niche kind of mentality, where we want to create something which is, like, authentically joyful, hil…”
Ed Cooke Nov 18, 2016 ▶ 15:14 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
Disclosure
Increasing gamification features directly boosts user retention at Memrise
“Yeah, in a word, yes. So we see the more we gamify, the more our intention improves. Of course, it's tied in with lots of other things. You need the content and the learning tech as well. But yeah, we see a big boost because of that.”
Ed Cooke Nov 18, 2016 ▶ 16:34 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
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Memrise achieved profitability as a consumer language learning business
“You know, I have to say, by the way, we're now profitable.”
Ed Cooke Nov 18, 2016 ▶ 19:47 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
Disclosure
Memrise sent a bus across Europe to record 20,000 native-speaker videos
“We've just sent a bus around Europe to go collect 20,000 short videos of native speakers in context.”
Ed Cooke Nov 18, 2016 ▶ 6:41 20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
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