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Nicolas Hernandez and the trouble with knowing best
He built 360Learning around a stubborn belief: the useful knowledge is already in the room. Now, as chairman and the founder of Jupi, Nicolas Hernandez is taking on the next question - who gets to decide?
The Question That Was Too Embarrassing to Ask
Pooja Sankar built Piazza for the student who knows a question matters but cannot bring herself to raise a hand. The result became a shared answer desk for millions - and, later, a route from classroom to career.
Caroline Solis Wright Took the Scenic Route to the C-Suite - and Kept the Map
Her career has wandered through insurance, 3D printers, classrooms and SaaS. The useful pattern is not the scenery, but how carefully she listens at every stop.
360Learning Burned Through Its First Idea - Then a €5,000 Customer Taught It How Companies Really Learn
The founders spent two years selling clever technology nobody wanted. One small Orange contract exposed the better business: give a company's experts the tools to teach everyone else.
Classtime
Classtime is a Zurich- and US-based education technology company building a web-based platform for formative and summative assessments. Teachers use it to create and grade quizzes, run collaborative challenges, and watch student understanding update in real time across any device. Founded in 2016, it serves hundreds of thousands of teachers and learners in more than 60 countries, with a free library of 30,000+ standards-aligned questions and a focus on grounding its design in learning science.
Valentin Ruest
Valentin Ruest is the co-founder and US co-CEO of Classtime, a Zurich-born edtech company building a formative and summative assessment platform used by educators and learners in more than 90 countries. A University of St. Gallen and Harvard-trained economist who once ran mortgages at a Swiss fintech, he traded banking for classrooms, splitting his life between Santa Barbara and Zurich while teaching personal finance in public schools and arguing that software should help teachers decide, not decide for them.