Piazza
Piazza is an incredibly engaging Q&A platform for college classes and college recruiting platform.
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Problem
College class have low engagement, inefficient communication, and disorganized content.
- The communication between instructors and students is inefficient.
- Students taking challenging STEM classes often don't have access to help when they need it the most.
- Course content is often disorganized or scattered.
Solution
Online platform that facilitates communication between instructors and students while organizing all class content.
- Centralized Q&A: Professors direct students to ask questions online and ensure no question goes unanswered.
- Class Wiki: A centralized place for instructors to share homework, announcements, and other study materials.
- College Recruiting: Students can leverage their class engagement to find companies that are looking for expertise in specific coursework.
Value Added
Helped the team scale from 1 to 1,200+ universities in 90+ countries and 10M+ in revenue.
- Product Strategy - As the Piazza's first PM and eventually Head of Product, I helped set early product strategy and navigate product market fit for Piazza Q&A and Piazza Talent Solutions products.
- GTM Strategy - I helped scale Piazza Q&A from 1 class at Stanford to 100,000+ classes in 90+ countries. I helped scale Piazza Talent Solutions from 0 to 100+ customers and 10M+ in revenue as Head of Sales. Customers included companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Airbnb, and Salesforce.
- Executive Coaching - Helped the founder hire the initial team, build culture, set up mechanisms to measure and manage performance.
