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[Special] Starter Stories: Meet the Founder Building Slack for Colleges and Universities
This podcast is brought to you by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform. Learn more about how Element451 can enhance student engagement, boost enrollment, reduce expenses, and increase staff productivity.
In just a moment, you’ll meet Kavitta Ghai Co-Founder of Nectir, an edtech startup that brings Slack-like workspaces into every college and university classroom.
Kavitta was pretty much born an entrepreneur…her very first hustle was in elementary school when she started selling stationery. She’d collect letterhead and envelopes from her father’s office and then sort into near bundles which she’d sell to her classmates.
In her freshman year at UC Santa Barbara, she was introduced to Slack by one of her professors who decided to use it as a way for the class to ask questions and share ideas. Kavitta was amazed at how superior her learning experience was in that class compared to her other classes…Slack transformed that 200 person lecture into a dynamic learning community.
And that’s when she started thinking…why wasn’t there a tool like Slack for every college class? What if every student at a university could join a channel for each course they enrolled in every semester? Could this better the learning experience for students? And perhaps even cut down on the time faculty and TAs spend answering questions about the course material?
And it was these questions and others like them that ultimately led Kavitta and her Co-Founder Jordan Long to build Nectir. Alright, get ready to meet Kavitta Ghai.
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Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.
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This podcast is brought to you by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform. Learn more about how Element451 can enhance student engagement, boost enrollment, reduce expenses, and increase staff productivity.
In just a moment, you’ll meet Kavitta Ghai Co-Founder of Nectir, an edtech startup that brings Slack-like workspaces into every college and university classroom.
Kavitta was pretty much born an entrepreneur…her very first hustle was in elementary school when she started selling stationery. She’d collect letterhead and envelopes from her father’s office and then sort into near bundles which she’d sell to her classmates.
In her freshman year at UC Santa Barbara, she was introduced to Slack by one of her professors who decided to use it as a way for the class to ask questions and share ideas. Kavitta was amazed at how superior her learning experience was in that class compared to her other classes…Slack transformed that 200 person lecture into a dynamic learning community.
And that’s when she started thinking…why wasn’t there a tool like Slack for every college class? What if every student at a university could join a channel for each course they enrolled in every semester? Could this better the learning experience for students? And perhaps even cut down on the time faculty and TAs spend answering questions about the course material?
And it was these questions and others like them that ultimately led Kavitta and her Co-Founder Jordan Long to build Nectir. Alright, get ready to meet Kavitta Ghai.
- - - -
Connect With Our Host:
Mallory Willsea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallorywillsea/
https://twitter.com/mallorywillsea
About The Enrollify Podcast Network:
The Higher Ed Pulse is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you’ll like other Enrollify shows too!
Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — The AI Workforce Platform for Higher Ed. Learn more at element451.com.
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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