95% of e-learning becomes skip factories - Matteo Penzo (zick learn)

EdTech Founders

In this episode: We interview Matteo Penzo who is a serial entrepreneur and a former executive at frog, a global design and strategy firm. Today Matteo leads the team at zick learn, which is a startup making enterprise learning fast, efficient and fun through text based micro-learning delivered to any chat client on the market. Matteo is based in Milan, Italy.

We talk about: How to leverage the lack of learner attention and time, how LMS providers are falling behind, the importance of corporate culture even from the very beginning for startups, pre-seed fundraising tips and lots more.

Outtakes:

• The reasons behind our success. It's very simple. If you look at our life today as learners, the one thing that everybody has huge lack of is time, and we operate in the minutes of free time everybody has.
• You must nurture your network because especially in pre-seed, people might like your idea, but at the end of the day will invest in you. And it's so much better if they know you very well.
• Because the one thing with company culture is that once it's wrong, when you realize it, it's too late and since it's too late, it is extremely challenging, if not impossible to change it.

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