From EdTech Innovation Exit to Entrepreneurial Education with Cecilia Zywicki

The Exit - Presented By Flippa

Technology

5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Cecilia Zywicki is a seasoned EdTech entrepreneur who is fascinated by innovation around learning. Cecilia’s first business, Ranku, was planned out on the back of a napkin over martinis in San Francisco with a friend. Ranku was a two-sided marketplace for state university systems to increase student enrollment, and after finding their niche the business started to grow. How did A round financing conversations turn into an acquisition by John Wiley & Sons? Listen to find out. Cecilia Retelle Zywicki is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Of Staff at Student Resource Center ("SRC"), a portfolio company of Avathon Capital. Cecilia is focused on creating and implementing standard operating procedures, building new teams to create exceptional student experiences, and integrating software to easily collect data and build dashboards. Before joining SRC, Cecilia was the COO at PresenceLearning, a leading provider of live online special education-related services. LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ceciliacoo/ Website - https://student-resource.org/ -- The Exit—Presented By Flippa: A 30-minute podcast featuring expert entrepreneurs who have been there and done it. The Exit talks to operators who have bought and sold a business. You’ll learn how they did it, why they did it, and get exposure to the world of exits, a world occupied by a small few, but accessible to many. To listen to the podcast or get daily listing updates, click on flippa.com/the-exit-podcast/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the exit presented by flippa the world's largest marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and startups the exit
0:07.3	It's a 30 minute podcast featuring amazing entrepreneurs who have been there and they have done it
0:11.2	The exit talks to operators who have bought and sold businesses of all different sizes
0:14.9	You learn how they did it why they did it and get exposure to the world of exits
0:18.7	It's a world occupied by a small few but accessible to many now in this episode I sit down with Cecilia
0:25.3	Ratelli
0:26.3	Zavwiki. She's an awesome entrepreneur who walks us through her exit from co-founding
0:32.5	Company called rancou and her emphasis on ed tech is really inspiring and one of the cool things
0:38.5	We were talking about before we recorded was actually her inspiration and going through tech stars and being part of tech stars
0:45.9	And me having lived in Cambridge and Massachusetts for a while with a bunch of hack stars and a bunch of companies that were going through tech stars
0:53.3	Well, I was going through an accelerator was a really fun connection that we both shared and just talking about the innovation around education
1:00.9	Is near and dear to me, and it was really cool to hear you know her conversation around
1:06.7	You know presence learning which is really what we dug into a lot and just the multiple successes and acquisitions that she's gone through
1:14.5	There were a lot of really great pieces where she was the vice president
1:20.0	Add to come to call widely and just a lot of really cool things that she breaks down in this about learning and development
1:27.1	And just all the aspects of going through an acquisition
1:30.3	So one of the cool parts about this educational piece is at the end she does talk about being a venture partner
1:37.0	So all the entrepreneurs out there that are interested in talking to VCs and things like that
1:42.8	She shares some really cool knowledge nuggets there. She's currently the chief operating officer
1:49.5	And chief of staff at student resource center and she's really out there on the ground trying to help people with the educational side of innovation
2:00.3	And so without further ado, let's sit down and talk to Cecilia the current venture partner at Hina Gray, BC
2:20.3	All right, everyone. I am here with Cecilia
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