Spencer Shulam: WeDo can predict whether a student will fail a class
Spencer Shulam · #65 Wait, Your App Does What Exactly? · Mar 3, 2025 · at 12:40
Spencer Shulam explains WeDo's predictive data capabilities to investors on The Pitch.
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“We, for example, can even today start predicting if a student's going to fail a class within the first few days of signing up for our product because we're able to see they're not marking off certain assignments, and we know other people who are just like them in the same class are marking off that assignment way before they are.”
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