Grassroots Workshops

On Creating An Online Workshops Marketplace For Teachers

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Robert Kaplinsky

Founder, Grassroots Workshops

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Grassroots Workshops

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from Long Beach, California, USA

started April 2019

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Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?

My name is Robert Kaplinsky and I founded Grassroots Workshops. We provide a flexible online workshop for teachers from experts they know, like, and trust.

The outgoing professional development model requires teachers to choose between staying in their classroom with students and leaving to learn from someone that they might know more than. It’s often expensive and too short to provide sufficient support.

Our model allows teachers to learn what they want, when and how they want, from who they want. It works around their schedule, not the other way around.

In two and a half years of having online workshops, we’ve had thousands of customers from dozens of countries.

What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?

I graduated from UCLA and started as a programming consultant in 2000, unaware of the impending dot com crash. I quickly went from being flown around the country for job interviews to not being able to find anyone interested in me. I eventually started my own programming company, but it was inconsistent work and...

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