The other co-founder is Ari Memar, who’s educated as a chemical engineer – UCLA, Magna Cum Laude by the way – and worked for more than a decade at Uber and ExxonMobil. Aside from being one of Wojcicki’s former students in high school, chemical engineering and Uber are an unusual career path for an education technology founder.
For Memar, it’s not an interesting side note but more of a fundamental tenet of how he sees education and, by extension, the proposition he sees in Tract. And while it may not seem like it to an outsider, Memar says working at Uber and Exxon were good training to start and run an education company. “When you are new to a job there’s always this feeling of imposter syndrome. Like, do I deserve to be here? Will I ever be as capable as those around me or above me? Do I have the skills I need and capability to be good at my job? I felt this on day one at Exxon and Uber. I think most people feel this way.
“I saw so many incredibly talented people around me dedicate their best years in life toward problems or opportunities that were relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things, and were not improving our world. Enterprise software. Ads-based businesses. Consumer goods, hurting our environment. K-12 Education felt like the single most important thing — the one silver bullet that could solve every world problem at once,” Memar said.
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