Everything Aaron Skonnard said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Skonnard: Tech-specific skill credentials will replace branded higher education degrees
“Technology-oriented assessments, or understanding, assessments that measure the understanding of real, you know, complex technologies, is, is going to drive the way, ah, modern organizations think about, Acquiring talent, managing talent, and you know, plannin…”
Skonnard: Adaptive learning bet can grow Pluralsight to $10B-$20B
“That's our big bet for the future that will, Take Pluralsight from being a billion dollar company to a 10, twenty billion dollar company, is if that actually works.”
Pluralsight's top author earned over $2M in royalties in 2015
“Our top earning authors today, and last year our top author made over two million dollars in royalties in a single year.”
Skonnard: Utah startups nail product-market fit before raising capital to scale
“I think that's probably the common trend amongst most Utah companies. They've kind of nailed the business model and the product market fit before they've thrown a lot of money on it to really try to scale it.”
Skonnard: Pluralsight will never publish duplicate courses on the same topic
“So we'll, we'll never publish two of the same thing, right?”
Skonnard: Pluralsight can score technical proficiency in ten questions and two minutes
“Usually we can do that if we have enough, ah, if we have enough, ah, data, we can, in a particular topic area, we can do it in about 10 questions. So in literally about two minutes, we can give someone what feels something like a GMAT score for a particular te…”
Skonnard: Focus on technology domain makes adaptive learning easier to solve
“They're trying to solve, I think, a much harder problem because they're trying to do it for all of learning. And we're taking a very specific approach in a, in the technology domain, which I think is a little easier to solve this, some of these problems around…”
Pluralsight authors with 5+ courses earn ~$3,500 median per course quarterly
“If you've published more than five courses with us on the platform, the median is about 3500 dollars per course per quarter. And then the average would be slightly lower than that, probably about 2700.”
Skonnard expects Pluralsight's enterprise pricing to hold while individual pricing drops
“And so over time, I would see the enterprise price point staying where it's at, and the individual price point coming way down.”
Pluralsight waited nine years before raising its first outside funding
“Nine years in.”
Aaron Skonnard
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