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Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Eric Harell.

He's the chief executive officer of a company called Cahoot, the global

game-based learning platform with more than 50 million users. Before, this company, Eric,

held several C-level roles for more than 10 years at Opera Software and VP roles at J.P. Morganco

in New York. He's an angel investor who has extensive experience as a board member of organizations,

such as the Board of the Alliance Venture Spring Fund,

a leading VC fund in Norway with 100 million under management. He was also on the board of the

Opera Software's joint venture in China. He's got an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School

and an MA and BA from the John Hopkins University. Eric, are you ready to take us to the top?

Yes, indeed. All right, good. So tell us about Cahoot. What do you do and what's your revenue model? How do you make money?

Yeah, well, first of all, I can just tell a little bit about Cahood. So Cahoot, you know, we're game-based learning platform. We're basically in a multitude of different environments.

Cahood is used in schools, you know, K to 12 schools.

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