Q You were the original. You were the OG of Silicon Valley. The original gangster marketer. OGM. Okay, Nyland, so tell me about Brain Chase. When did you get involved, and why CMO?
A So Brain Chase is a super fun product, and I got involved about a year ago. Um, I was, I knew the, uh, the founder, the CEO, and founding couple, the founding team, um, from my husband's business school experience, and I just loved what they were doing, and I have three daughters of my own who are Brain Chase aged, which is between second and eighth grade, and I had actually had my daughters do Brain Chase, um, The previous summer. And so when our friend approached me and said, I'm looking for, uh, somebody to help with marketing, I raised my hand and said, you know, pick me. So it's been really, really fun. And as you described in the introduction, we are an online learning challenge. We actually curate, we vet and curate, um, so the best online curriculum providers we can find. And so we don't create our own curriculum. And the, one of the reasons that we do this is because one of our co-founders, Heather Staker, is actually, uh, the premier researcher, uh, In the world on blended learning, which is the idea of bringing technology into the classroom. She just wrote the book called Blended. Um, and she travels all over the world, in fact, talking about how to bring technology into the classroom. So she has this, this, um, unique perspective into what makes a good online, um, curriculum provider. So we've vetted and, and brought those together, and we've created a proprietary s…
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