{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Cache Flow","title":"E58: From Startup to EdTech Powerhouse: A Year in Review","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3891,"description":"Dive into this exhilarating episode as Ignite!’s CEO Jessica Sliwerski returns to unpack an extraordinary year of 5X growth, pivotal Series B funding, and a seismic impact on student reading. Discover how Ignite! Reading is changing the game for kids nationwide. It's a heartfelt saga of innovation, human-centric tech, and a mission to mold the future of education.\nHere are a few topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Cache Flow Podcast.\n5X company growth in just a year.Over 16,000 students served nationally.Raised a game-changing Series B.Honestly human-driven teaching success.Rigorous tutor certification process.\nResources:Ignite! ReadingCurotecE33: Solving the Reading Crisis in America with Ignite! Reading’s Jessica Sliwerski\nConnect with Jessica Sliwerski:LinkedIn\nConnect with our host, Brian Dainis:Linktree\nQuotables:11:22 -  It's not because anyone is evil, it's because the system isn't designed in a way that is going to make “the main thing” the main thing. And so nobody's really, it's like if no one's accountable and it's not the thing that every single person is obsessing about, then yeah, this is gonna keep happening. So that's one part of the problem historically.25:48 - So I often feel like I'm such an imposter because I run a tech company and I can't even, you know, figure out how to make Netflix work on my television in my living room. And so the answer to your question is that in terms of the experience for the customer, it is a deeply human experience because it's tutors that are, you know, video conferencing through our secure platform meeting one-on-one with kids and doing direct instruction that is synchronous, there is no app per se. And what we figured out how to do adding ignite reading that is unique in our space is how to scale something that is so human intensive. And typically in EdTech, what you have are a lot of software products and it's pretty easy to scale a software product, but the problem is that you can't get the quality of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZY_gYzukdlRdDz8o7iZM6iCr5BZI_LzCNWv0cx0TtE8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM0MTYyLzE2OTc4/MTEzMTAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}