Drew Madson - Young Readers Win Big
Angel Invest Boston
English - August 23, 2023 05:30 - 40 minutes - 54.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Careers angelinvesting boston angelinvestor bostonstartups business earlystagecompanies founders seedcapital seedfunding Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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During COVID, Readlee, Drew Madson’s startup, offered teachers a highly effective way to measure and remedy reading deficits among online learners. This led to the company being acquired by Paper, the tutoring platform. An inspiring interview.
Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.
Highlights:
Sal Daher Introduces Drew Madson What Readlee is Solving Behind the Scenes of Readlee How Readlee Came to Be "... COVID just highlighted this need that already existed..." "...I highly recommend checking out The Opportunity Atlas. If listeners haven't looked at this, it's an amazing analysis of how certain interventions can actually improve people's ability to make more money over the course of their lives and have more opportunity and flourishing..." "... What are large language models going to do to this space?..." How Drew Developed an Interest in Education Parting Thoughts
Topics: discovering entrepreneurship, founding story, product