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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

1027. His EdTech Company Gives Teachers a Greater Ability to Focus on Student Learning

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Chris Hull is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Otus, a Chicago-based edtech company. After 13 years as an educator, Chris wanted to minimize the chaos of disconnected edtech tools for K-12 administrators, educators, students, and their families. Otus is one system to teach, grade, analyze, and plan. With Otus, school leaders can focus on student learning, not technology.

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0:00.0

Hello, world.

0:11.8

Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

0:14.8

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

0:16.9

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

0:27.2

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look in what it's really like to do what they do.

0:39.2

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Chris Hull.

0:43.1

Welcome, Chris.

0:44.2

Glad to be your done.

0:45.7

Thank you, sir.

0:46.3

Chris, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

0:49.3

I really hope so.

0:50.7

All right.

0:51.3

We're going to dig into that backstory in just a minute.

0:56.0

Chris Hull is the co-founder and chief product officer of otis a chicago based ed tech company after 13 years as an educator

1:03.7

chris wanted to minimize the chaos of disconnected ed tech tools for k through 12 administrators

1:09.6

educators students and their families.

1:12.6

Otis is one system to teach, grade, analyze, and plan.

1:17.0

With Otis, school leaders can focus on student learning, not technology.

1:21.6

Well, Chris, that's an overview of your amazing journey.

1:25.1

Tell our listeners around the world just for a couple of minutes,

1:31.0

the projects you're working on right now that have you excited and motivated, and then we'll go into the backstory. Yeah, so currently I'm the chief product officer at Otis, and we're really

1:36.5

trying to ensure that the tools needed to help maximize learning are provided for the teachers,

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