Starter Stories

Zach Busekrus

Starter Stories is a podcast that explores the origin stories of the world’s leading edtech companies and education consultancies...and the people who created them. In each episode, you’ll hear about the grit, the strategies, the wins, the failures, and the serendipity that transpired to take a half-baked idea and bring it to life.

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Starter Stories

Episodes (25)

May 25, 2022 Starter Stories Episode 24: Ben Congleton - Founder of Olark
May 11, 2022 Episode 23: Cooper Jones - Founder of RahRah
Feb 23, 2022 Episode 22: Bev Ryan — Founder of Ologie

Starter Stories

May 25, 2022
2¾ hours
64 MB

In just a moment, you’ll meet Ben Congleton — Founder of Olark, a live chat software and data tool that serves colleges and universities of all shapes and sizes. Growing up, Ben wanted to be a professor like his father before him. And while he completed both a bachelors and masters degree from Virginia Tech and started his PhD at the University of Michigan, Ben ultimately realized that he was a bit more interested in business than in higher education. So he decided to pursue one of the many business ideals he had noodled on for a f...

Starter Stories

Starter Stories Episode 24: Ben Congleton - Founder of Olark

Zach Busekrus

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