Jodi Miller, PhD (Founder, WellCheq) shares her secret to scaling the protective magic of caring educators and empowering school leaders with actionable data to address the K-12 mental health crisis. As a former teacher, Jodi's approach to K-12 sales is a masterclass for founders on building edtech product that students and teachers truly love to use.

Dr. Miller also presents fascinating student wellbeing trends from the WellCheq dataset. Can you guess what time of year is most stressful for students? Or whether students in red or blue states report more feelings of loneliness and anger?

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Jon Small (GM, Breakout Learning) and Eric Hoffman (VP of Sales, braintrust tutors) share hard-won advice about selling to K-12 districts from their 25+ years of combined experience at high-growth edtech firms.

Jon & Eric explain why cold calls work and how to execute them well, how to sync your efforts with the “heat zones” of a school sales cycle, and the importance of knowing when a founder should hire their first sales leader. This lively episode is a sales primer for first-time edtech founders and packed with wisdom for established sales teams.

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Siya Raj Purohit (Co-Founder & Partner, Pathway Ventures) pulls back the curtain on what she looks for in pre-seed and seed startups that are driving economic mobility through new models of earning, learning, and community building. As an operator and an investor, she offers grounded advice about how to pitch a VC as well as how to become one. Siya also discusses how to succeed in edtech as a generalist and reveals a few community-based networks she thinks are worth watching.

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