Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight, discusses product pricing models and democratizing learning at Data Driven NYC in 2016.
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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…”
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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.”
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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.”
Insight
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.”
Disclosure
Skonnard: Pluralsight will never publish duplicate courses on the same topic
“So we'll, we'll never publish two of the same thing, right?”
Assertion Partly supported
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…”