Lumen Learning

5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 12, 2025 by Kim Thanos · said 11 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jun 12, 2025
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Thanos: Lumen Learning prices courseware at $35 per student
“Today our pricing is 35 dollars per student, which is still far below the market rate, but we've really been able to make sure that 35 dollars is hitting right on the nose to achieve product market fit and achieve the goals of the learning materials.”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 4:11 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Jun 12, 2025 positive
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Lumen shifted content creation to AI, moving subject matter experts to QA
“In the past we would have our internal team was the gatekeeper in terms of QA, but we worked with many more subject matter experts in the creation of the content. And we're able to balance that quite a bit with generative AI doing content development And then …”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 32:22 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Jun 12, 2025
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Thanos: Lumen Learning launched at $5 per student versus $180-$200 textbooks
“Our pricing was five dollars per student per course versus what might be at that in those days, 180 to 200 dollars for the textbook.”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 2:57 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Jun 12, 2025 positive
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Thanos: Lumen Learning Demos Perform Better Over Zoom Than On Campus
“We've really found that for our demos, we actually do much better with a demo over Zoom than we do a demo on campus, because we want everybody kind of looking at the screen and, you know, you can do that in a more intimate way if you're sitting at your desk th…”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 16:31 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
Jun 12, 2025 positive
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Thanos: Balancing grant funding with venture capital creates productive accountability tension
“We liked the balance of having some grant funding that was more impact driven and some traditional investment that was more scale and efficiency driven, and I think that tension really served us very well. It really helped us, you know, have to pay attention o…”
Kim Thanos Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 15:38 Disrupting Higher Education and Embracing AI at Lumen Learning
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