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Nignish: Vivid Learning operates entirely on publisher revenue-share partnerships

Tom Nignish · 1,000 Schools Pay them $2m for This Unique Tool · Mar 17, 2021 · at 11:02

Tom Nignish, President of Vivid Learning, explains the company's business model and commercial terms with educational publishers to Nathan Latka.

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“Basically every one of our partnerships is some kind of a rev share. And so, you know, some of them are, it's fifty-fifty. Others are, you know, much smaller percentage.”

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