Alan Turing: the first computer scientist, and the first to show that, beyond mere "calculation," a computer could be a mind and meaning machine. He also beat the Nazis by cracking their codes. Brits sent him to jail though (for being gay).
Neal Stephenson: programmer and science fiction author, plumbing the intersection of storytelling and calculation, and one of the greatest futurists around. Extrapolate forward, and even if you get it wrong, you'll know yourself and your product far better through the exercise.
Gojimo is a mobile revision platform — we bring study guides and quizzes from the world's top educational publishers to a student's mobile phone and tablet. Students can also interact with one another and their teachers.
When I was on my gap year I did our first publisher deal with — the world's largest publisher of books. They're also a FTSE 100 company. Having a company like that on board was pretty reassuring. This year we also closed a $1 million+ seed round, which was led by Index Ventures and included the Innocent Drinks founders — that certainly made dropping out of university worthwhile!
We want to become the number one provider of digital educational resources worldwide, so the next few years are all about international expansion. We're also looking into personalised, adaptive learning — essentially tailoring our experience to individual users to make it an even more effective learning experience.
Alan Turing: the first computer scientist, and the first to show that, beyond mere "calculation," a computer could be a mind and meaning machine. He also beat the Nazis by cracking their codes. Brits sent him to jail though (for being gay).
Neal Stephenson: programmer and science fiction author, plumbing the intersection of storytelling and calculation, and one of the greatest futurists around. Extrapolate forward, and even if you get it wrong, you'll know yourself and your product far better through the exercise.
Gojimo is a mobile revision platform — we bring study guides and quizzes from the world's top educational publishers to a student's mobile phone and tablet. Students can also interact with one anothe
r and their teachers.
When I was on my gap year I did our first publisher deal with — the world's largest publisher of books. They're also a FTSE 100 company. Having a company like that on board was pretty reassuring. This year we also closed a $1 million+ seed round, which was led by Index Ventures and included the Innocent Drinks founders — that certainly made dropping out of university worthwhile!
We want to become the number one provider of digital educational resources worldwide, so the next few years are all about international expansion. We're also looking into personalised, adaptive learning — essentially tailoring our experience to individual users to make it an even more effective learning experience.