Prenda is an Arizona-based education company that gives everyday adults - called guides - the software, curriculum, training, and support to open and run small, tuition-free K-8 microschools of 5 to 10 students out of homes, libraries, and community spaces. Founded by Kelly Smith after he started a learning club around his kitchen table, Prenda partners with state-credentialed institutions and school-choice programs so families pay little or nothing, while students learn at their own pace through a 'connect, conquer, collaborate, create' day built around mastery and student agency.
Joshua Levy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Holloway, a San Francisco-based digital publishing platform that produces comprehensive expert-reviewed guides on professional and entrepreneurial topics. A mathematician-turned-engineer, Levy previously served as a founding engineer at BloomReach and held infrastructure roles at Viv Labs (acquired by Samsung) and SRI International where he worked alongside the original Siri team. He is perhaps best known in technical circles as the creator of 'The Art of Command Line' on GitHub - a guide with over 150,000 stars translated into 14 languages and read by more than 2 million people. At Holloway, he has pioneered a new model of expert-driven digital publishing, raising $4.6M in seed funding from NEA, the New York Times Company, and South Park Commons, and co-authoring guides on equity compensation and technical recruiting that have collectively reached millions of readers.