The Ukraine-based edtech startup now employs 800 full-time workers and hosts 150,000 tutors on its platform. In addition to offering each language—from Mandarin and Arabic to Greek and Norwegian—Preply also covers math, computer science, and chess.

David on the Twitch lesson every edtech founder should take "If I can give one really strong piece of advice to anyone looking to get into edtech, you have to find a niche where your offering is just super valuable, and there are a lot of people who want to use it and are willing to pay for it. It can be a very small niche, you don't have to think about scaling" "This is one of the great things Twitch did. They wanted to be a global video streaming platform, and then they realised they're a gamer streaming platform. They focused on 1% of the target audience, because that was the most passionate and the one they could make the most money from" "Find out what the niche is that would create the best return, the most stickiness, the most active and engaged users, and just focus on that" "Instead of trying to go too broad into all these institutional learning worlds. It's just a black hole" FT @d3h3d_

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