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The SAT Tutor Who Put the College Search in a Pocket
Edupath began with a simple wager: students might work harder for a school they chose themselves. Its phone app joined college discovery, test practice and application chores - then traveled from Berkeley classrooms to a Chinese test-prep giant.
The Tutor Who Became an Algorithm
Juni Learning grew by making online education feel unusually human. Then demand arrived too quickly for humans alone - and the company’s most revealing lesson became how to turn mentorship into software without losing the point of the mentor.
Shaan Patel
Dr. Shaan Patel is the founder and CEO of Prep Expert, the SAT/ACT prep company that landed a $250,000 deal from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank Season 7 - one of Cuban's most profitable Shark Tank investments. He raised his own SAT score 640 points to a perfect score, then built a company that has helped 100,000+ students improve their scores and win over $100 million in college scholarships. Board-certified dermatologist, Yale MBA, USC MD - Patel turned a personal academic transformation into a $75M+ enterprise.