7 Personalized E Learning Portal Business Success Stories [2023]

In 2009, Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was ignited five years earlier when he was helping his young cousins do math homework over the computer. They loved his clear explanations and soon he was posting free tutorials on Youtube, where they started to attract the attention of thousands of users around the world. Sal realized he could help democratize learning by building a free platform to teach math, science, and the humanities. Today, Khan Academy offers hundreds of free recorded tutorials in dozens of languages. During the pandemic, its popularity surged to 30 million users a month. Order the How I Built This book at: https://smarturl.it/HowIBuiltThis

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Shaunak Roy, the CEO, and founder of Yellowdig knew he wanted to start a business that made a difference.

Shaunak completed his graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after earning a mechanical engineering degree from IIT Bombay.

He saw an opportunity to take advantage of the concept of social sharing through technology as Facebook and other social media technologies took over the social connectivity scene, particularly in the area of sharing academic ideas and knowledge.

Yellowdig is dedicated to transforming how students interact with their education. They provide a cutting-edge platform that is intended to encourage meaningful interactions between students and teachers in face-to-face, blended, and online courses.

Over 130 colleges and universities, K12 schools, and corporate training clients have all adopted Yellowdig, a community-driven active learning platform founded in 2014.

The goal of Yellowdig is to make every classroom an engaging, social, and experiential learning environment.

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