1296 3 Metrics 30m MAU Quizlet Tracks As They Pass 1m Paying Customers

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Nathan Latka

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🗓️ 10 February 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Matthew Glotzbach is the CEO of Quizlet. He joined Quizlet from 12 years at Google, where he was most recently VP Product Management at YouTube. Prior to YouTube, he was on the founding team of Google Apps. Matthew studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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0:00.0	joined Quizlet back two years ago. The company was created in 2006, has since grown to helping
0:04.7	over 30 million students on a monthly active basis that students and teachers really learn,
0:10.1	educate themselves, even folks that are out of the field, or sorry, they're in the field already
0:13.5	out of school helping them. They've got folks paying students paying, call it 20 bucks a year,
0:19.1	teachers paying 35 bucks a year.
0:30.8	Sounds like they've passed about well north of a million customers, paying over 100% year-over-year growth, a team of 100 people in San Francisco at about $32 million raised.
0:38.8	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other insider
0:47.7	information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple of hundred thousand dollars
0:54.0	to $2.7 million. I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million. news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven
0:54.7	million. I had no money when I started the company. It was a hundred and sixty
0:58.1	million dollars which is the size of any IPOs. We're a bit strapped. We have like
1:02.1	22,000 customers. With over five million downloads in a very short amount of
1:08.9	time, major outlets like Inc. are calling us the fastest
1:12.2	growing business show on iTunes. I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
1:18.7	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Matthew Glatzbach. He is the CEO of a company called
1:22.7	Quizlet. He joined the company 12 years ago at Google, where he was most recently VP of product
1:27.2	management at YouTube.
1:28.7	Before YouTube, he was on the founding team of Google apps.
1:31.8	Matthew studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1:35.8	Matthew, are you ready to take us to the top?
1:37.7	I'm ready, Nathan.
1:38.5	Great to see you.
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