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Wendy Parrish Has Spent a Career Closing the Distance Between Learning and Work
From mechanical engineering to online college research to virtual job simulations, Wendy Parrish has followed one durable question: how do you help people see a practical next step?
Transfr Put the Trade School in a Headset - Then Learned Who Would Pay for It
The workforce-education company sells institutions a safer, repeatable way to let learners try real jobs before betting their lives on them. Its useful lesson is less about virtual reality than about finding the buyer with both the pain and the budget.
Derek Belch
Derek Belch is the founder and CEO of STRIVR, the enterprise virtual reality training company he spun out of Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab in 2014. A former Stanford kicker turned graduate assistant football coach, Belch built a VR prototype to give quarterbacks mental reps off the field, then pivoted the company from sports to the Fortune 1000. STRIVR has since trained more than a million workers in VR for clients including Walmart, Verizon, Bank of America and the NFL, and has raised roughly $87.5 million through a Series B.