Darius Vaillancourt
EdTech Founder. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
Darius Vaillancourt is the founder of an EdTech startup designed to help online course users collaborate. His platform achieved high engagement and improved course completion rates during the COVID pandemic.
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Everything Darius Vaillancourt said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Vaillancourt: Remote bootcamps charged $10K despite degraded student experience
“These companies are still charging the same amount, 10 K for a coding bootcamp or whatever, but the experience is like significantly degraded.”
Vaillancourt: Silicon Valley advisors wrongly told Howdy not to charge universities
“We had very smart angels and advisors. You know, I had like the former VP of product at LinkedIn learning and other vets that had been coming, you know, come out of Silicon Valley that basically said, don't charge the schools anything. Like you're effectively …”
Vaillancourt: Howdy Saw Course Completion Rates Reach 75% to 80%
“And so that wound up, I mean, it varied across courses. So if you like use 95% as a benchmark, we were seeing in cases like 80, 75%.”
Vaillancourt: Howdy should have cut off non-paying elite university pilots sooner
“In retrospect, we should have pulled the plug, like, maybe taken the device out and said, hey, listen, sorry, like, you see the numbers going down. We really love to support you, but we also have a business to run.”
Vaillancourt: Elite universities prioritize full-tuition students over MOOC learners
“At the end of the day, their priority is their traditional business, which is the core university, the people that are going there, you know, spending 80,000 dollars a year to get a degree, undergraduate, whatever, like, that's really their core constituency.”
Vaillancourt: Howdy could have used LLMs as automated facilitators before shutting down
“I could have pivot now, like right around a year before we shut down the company, we could have integrated large language models into the peer-to-peer sessions to basically be an automated facilitator for these different topics.”
Vaillancourt: Regulated Legacy Institutions Rarely Share End-User Priorities
“There are certain industries, education, I know some people that have built in healthcare that share this, is that because of the regulation, in the way, like, some of these universities or institutions have existed for, You know, a hundred hundreds of years i…”
Vaillancourt: Five years of unpaid founder suffering rarely yields massive success
“You have people, everybody says like, determination, look at the person that went through this five years and like, you know, paid themselves nothing and, you know, slept on their friend's couches, and then they emerge with like, fifty million ARR. And the rea…”
Vaillancourt: 90% of students drop out of online courses
“Online courses, even for the best courses taught by professors like Barry Nelpov, who's from Yale, they have low engagement. They may be better than the average, but like you're talking, 90% of students drop out of a course who start one, and so it's a massive…”
Berklee expanded Howdy pilot from three to 70 courses in one month
“So Berkeley school of music is out of Boston, you know, world-class business music school. They piloted us with three courses. It started, they started to see positive Metrics and they went from three to 60, 70 courses in like a span of maybe a month.”
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