43. EdTech Entrepreneur’s Insights on the Industry (Dr Lindy Ledohowski)

Educational technology (EdTech) is a fast-growing industry that is expected to reach $404B in total expenditure by 2025. There are a staggering number of technologies that are labeled as educational, the Apple App Store alone has over 80 000 educational apps. However, the educational value of these technologies is not always clear. In this episode I am joined by a successful entrepreneur who shares her insights and experiences going from academia to building an EdTech startup. Dr Lindy Ledohowski is the Co-founder and CEO of EssayJack, a successful Canadian software startup that helps students improve their academic writing. Lindy was a tenure-track English professor, specializing in contemporary Canadian literature, when she developed the idea for her company. After years of teaching English to high school and university students, she saw that often students had great ideas, but made errors in academic writing. With her believe that if you can master the art of writing well, then you can achieve all your dreams, she quite her academic career and developed the technology to help her students. Dr Lindy Ledohowski Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorlindy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindy-ledohowski EssayJack: https://www.essayjack.com/ EssayJack Twitter: https://twitter.com/essayjack EssayJack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/essayjack/ EssayJack Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/essayjack/ EssayJack Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essayjack