The Exchanges

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Every exchange below was scored with names hidden, four dimensions each from 1 to 5. An exchange's score is 0.30·directness + 0.30·coherence + 0.25·precision + 0.15·compression. The published score averages the raw tape exchange scores and shrinks small samples toward the cohort mean, so five great answers can't beat twenty good ones. Produced feed rows count only toward coarse estimates, never toward a full score.

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Answered produced feed D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60

Q Okay, great. Give me the backstory here. When did you guys launch?

A So we've launched about two and a half, three years ago, and it's been quite a journey just figuring out what both sides of the marketplace want. We had this crazy idea that businesses can provide job training. There's two worlds that exist. In one world, job training is controlled by centralized institutions, post-secondary institutions that are Very expensive. Costs a lot of money. Only available to a small subset of people. And frankly, do a really bad job. 53% of graduates are underemployed. That's the world that we live in. That's the world is actually changing very quickly, especially with COVID. The world that we imagine and we are building with Acadium is one where anyone with an internet connection can launch a career. As long as they have the motivation and will to, they can come to Acadium. They can get access to courses, work experience, hiring relationships. For free wherever they are. And this enables economic mobility to anyone around the world. And this is something we're very, very passionate about. And the coolest part is particularly the people that benefit the most are the underprivileged, those that have barriers that are related to socioeconomic barriers or geographical barriers. We remove them and we have tons of stories, uh, of apprentices who are, were able to launch new careers for free. Because of Acadium.

AI assessment note: “we've launched about two and a half, three years ago”

Partly produced feed D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 4 3.45

Q And do you remember that first year in business in 2018, how much revenue you were able to do?

A It was really hard at first. We actually built a one player mode. It's two sided marketplace. You have a chicken and egg problem. And in our business, we focused on the student side. We actually focused quite heavily on, on both sides, but on the student side, particularly was super important to get liquidity there. So we built a whole course curriculum in digital marketing, got one side of the marketplace through some growth hacks that we knew. And then we focused on the other side. Um, we had no revenue for awhile. We were close to death for a while, and it came to the point where we just had to hustle, and I ended up signing the first 300 businesses myself, just really hustling in Facebook groups.

AI assessment note: “we had no revenue for awhile. We were close to death for a while”

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