Engineering:Quizlet

From HandWiki
Short description: American online studying platform
Quizlet
Quizlet Logo 2021.svg
Quizlet logo since 2021
Screenshot
Quizlet website screenshot.png
The Quizlet website homepage
Type of site
Education
Available inEnglish, German, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simpified), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, French, Quebec French, Indonesian, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Headquarters
San Francisco, California , California
Area served130 countries worldwide
OwnerQuizlet Inc.
Founder(s)Andrew Sutherland
CEOLex Bayer
RevenueFreemium (ads/subscriptions)
Websitequizlet.com
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJanuary 17, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-01-17)

Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning.[1] It was founded in October 2005 by Andrew Sutherland, who at the time was a 15-year old student,[2] and released to the public in January 2007.[3] Quizlet's primary products include digital flash cards, matching games, practice electronic assessments, and live quizzes. In 2017, 1 in 2 high school students used Quizlet.[4] As of December 2021, Quizlet has over 500 million user-generated flashcard sets and more than 60 million active users.[5]

Company History

Quizlet was founded in 2005 by Andrew Sutherland as a studying tool to aid in memorization for his French class, which he claimed to have "aced".[6][7][8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online.[9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user.[10]

Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website.[11]

In 2011, Quizlet added the ability to listen to content using text-to-speech.[12] In August 2012, it released an app for the iPhone and iPad and shortly afterward one for Android devices.[11]

In 2015, Quizlet announced raising $12 million from Union Square Ventures, Costanoa Venture Capital, Altos Ventures, and Owl Ventures to expand its digital study tools and grow internationally.[13]

Quizlet hired Matt Glotzbach as CEO in May 2016 and launched a redesign in August 2016.[14] Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way.[15]

In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.[16][17] Glotzbach announced in 2018 that Quizlet would be opening offices in Denver, Colorado in 2018, announcing "a big vision at Quizlet to provide the most intelligent study tools in the world, and our expansion into Denver, a city with incredible tech ingenuity, will help us more quickly build the next generation of learning tools used by students everywhere".[18]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glotzbach announced he was opening Quizlet's premium service, Quizlet Teacher, for free to all users who have an account registered as a teacher.[19]

Quizlet made its first acquisition in March 2021, with the purchase of Slader, which offered detailed explanations of textbook concepts and practice problems, and eventually incorporated it into its paid platform, Quizlet Plus.[20][21][22]

In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies.[23] In March 2023, Quizlet started to incorporate AI features with the release "Q-Chat", a virtual AI tutor powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT API.[24][25][26] Quizlet launched four additional AI powered features in August 2023 to assist with student learning.[27][28]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bhutta, Fatima (18 January 2019). "Quizlet reaches 50 Million Users milestone". TechEngage. https://techengage.com/quizlet-50-million-users-reached/. 
  2. ↑ Mullen, Audrey (20 August 2019). "Going to School While Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech". EdSurge. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-08-20-going-to-school-running-a-startup-when-students-build-their-own-edtech. 
  3. ↑ "QUIZLET". The Innovation Economy, presented by Intel, in partnership with the Aspen Institute, PBS Newshour. http://www.theinnovationeconomy.org/_layouts/IEC/InnovatorsCorner/InvCrnDetails.aspx?IcrnId=2&LinkId=2&videono=7922161&Vdesc=7. 
  4. ↑ Kolodny, Lora. "Popular study app Quizlet faces a moment of truth as a new school year begins" (in en). https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/quizlet-a-popular-study-app-faces-a-moment-of-truth.html. 
  5. ↑ Woods, Jordan (13 January 2023). "10 Best Apps That Act As Study Aids". Screen Rant. https://screenrant.com/best-study-aid-apps/#quizlet-is-a-great-resource-for-flashcards-and-exercises. 
  6. ↑ Tynan, Dan. "Meet the Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21" (in en). https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCWorld/story?id=4417827. 
  7. ↑ (in en) Quizlet's Andrew Sutherland on The Morning Show, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilSPvgo0K38, retrieved 2022-09-20 
  8. ↑ "QUIZLET: Join millions and Build Your Own Flashcards, Game Yourself to Smart". SF New Tech. November 2010. http://sfnewtech.com/2010/11/19/quizlet-join-millions-build-your-own-flashcards-game-yourself-to-smart/. 
  9. ↑ "50,000 registered users!" (in en-gb). https://quizlet.com/blog/50000-registered-users. 
  10. ↑ "Celebrating 10 Years of Quizlet.com" (in en-gb). https://quizlet.com/blog/celebrating-10-years-of-quizletcom. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Quizlet's Growth Puts It on the Top of the Edtech Stack". EdSurge. November 2012. https://www.edsurge.com/n/quizlet-s-growth-puts-it-on-the-top-of-the-edtech-stack. 
  12. ↑ "Quizlet Now Offers "Speller" Mode in 18 Languages". Free Technology for Teachers. July 2011. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/07/quizlet-now-offers-speller-mode-in-18.html#.VM5tV8YsrUV. 
  13. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (2015-11-23). "Quizlet Raises $12 Million to Take Its Popular Study Tools International". Wall Street Journal. https://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2015/11/23/quizlet-raises-12-million-to-take-its-popular-study-tools-international/?mod=WSJBlog. 
  14. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (5 May 2016). "YouTube VP Matt Glotzbach graduates to CEO role at Quizlet". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/05/youtube-vp-matt-glotzbach-graduates-to-ceo-role-at-quizlet/. 
  15. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (12 April 2016). "Popular study app Quizlet creates a game for groups in the classroom, Quizlet Live". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/12/quizlet-creates-a-game-for-groups-in-the-classroom-quizlet-live/. 
  16. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (23 August 2017). "Popular study app Quizlet faces a moment of truth as a new school year begins". CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/quizlet-a-popular-study-app-faces-a-moment-of-truth.html. 
  17. ↑ Duffy, Jill (1 October 2021). "Quizlet Review". PCMag. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/quizlet. 
  18. ↑ Svaldi, Aldo (30 October 2018). "Quizlet online learning platform’s new Denver office could bring 300 jobs paying average annual wage of $156K". The Denver Post. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/10/30/quizlet-denver-second-office/. 
  19. ↑ "Free Quizlet Teacher to support remote learning" (in en-gb). https://quizlet.com/blog/free-quizlet-teacher-to-support-remote-learning. 
  20. ↑ Hahm, Melody (2021-03-25). "Exclusive: Quizlet acquires Slader as it aims to become the one-stop destination for students". Yahoo Finance. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/quizlet-schools-reopening-remote-biden-administration-140015742.html. 
  21. ↑ Mascarenhas, Natasha (1 April 2021). "How is edtech spending its extra capital?". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/01/how-is-edtech-spending-its-extra-capital/. 
  22. ↑ Luk, Serena (12 December 2022). "Quizlet: A Growing Monopoly on Education". The Vice. https://ihsvoice.com/2022/12/12/quizlet-a-growing-monopoly-on-education/. 
  23. ↑ "Quizlet Appoints New Chief Executive Officer". PR Newswire (Press release).
  24. ↑ Newton, Casey (3 March 2021). "Who’s actually getting rich off of AI?". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/23623495/ai-profits-winners-losers-openai-notion-snapchat. 
  25. ↑ Wiggers, Kyle (1 March 2023). "OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers". TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/01/openai-launches-an-api-for-chatgpt-plus-dedicated-capacity-for-enterprise-customers/. 
  26. ↑ Kahn, Jeremy (1 March 2023). "OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT for business customers". Fortune. https://fortune.com/2023/03/01/openai-chatgpt-api-enterprise-commercial-instacart-shopify-snap-quizlet/. 
  27. ↑ Ravaglia, Ray (10 August 2023). "Quizlet Embraces AI And ChatGPT To Transform The Experience Of Studying". Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rayravaglia/2023/08/10/quizlet-embraces-ai-and-chatgpt-to-transform-the-experience-of-studying/?sh=407f79095b12. 
  28. ↑ Ortiz, Sabrina (8 August 2023). "Quizlet launches four generative AI-powered tools to simplify studying". ZDNET. https://www.zdnet.com/article/quizlet-launches-four-generative-ai-powered-tools-to-simplify-studying/. 

External links



Retrieved from "https://handwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Engineering:Quizlet&oldid=3241850"