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Hey everyone, welcome to how I built this resilience edition.

On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're meeting this very challenging moment in new and creative ways.

And today, we're going to hear from Jesse Wolley Wilson, the CEO of DreamBox.

DreamBox is an online learning platform that uses educational games to teach math to kids.

And it's become more popular than ever as many schools in the US are opening back up, but only online.

Jesse joined me from DreamBox's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.

So for people who aren't familiar with it, can you just kind of give us a description of DreamBox?

Sure. DreamBox is a K-8 math program that delivers personalized learning for every child on it.

So it's engaging, kids think they're doing games, but they're actually doing very serious math learning.

So you have, I think, about 270 plus employees now.

How are you managing the staff remotely?

It's been a lot of change for us.

So there were two phases of this evolution, post-COVID.

First phase was to survive.

And the second phase was to thrive.

And in the survive phase, we were guided by our company values and by three principles, really.

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