Elizabeth Yin: D2C admissions platforms face severe structural churn upon graduation
Elizabeth Yin · AI in Education Startups: Will This Platform Secure $1 Million Funding? · Oct 23, 2024 · at 8:19
Elizabeth Yin explains her reason for passing on Julia Dixon's college admissions platform ESAI during an episode of The Pitch.
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“I think, for me, one of the things that I don't like about the mechanics of this model is there's constant churn with the direct-to-consumer model, right? And it's like, you graduate, okay, I no longer need this, and then now you have to go and get the next cohort of people who are going to graduate soon. So it's like, Just to get back up to the level of last year, you have to put in a lot of effort, and then some to grow, and for me, I just feel like that kind of growth pattern is really hard, so I'm out.”
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