#31 - Eimantas Bekeza 🇱🇹 (Memby) on turning passion for education into a VC backed startup, the future of learning, and how to validate new ideas and markets with lean methods

Eimantas Bekeza is the CEO & Co-founder of Memby, an after-school learning platform that provides top-tier tutoring at a fraction of the cost of private tutors. Eimantas is also a “superstar tutor” himself having tutored since 8th grade and has turned his passion for teaching into an exciting startup.

In this episode, we talk about the origins of Memby and building an EdTech business as well as the development of the EdTech industry as such. We go deeper into what makes a learning experience effective and paint a picture of how the future classroom will look like. 

The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps

[02:30] - INTRODUCTION AND THE ORIGINS OF MEMBY

• Turning personal teaching passion into a business
• Technological differences between countries globally and within Europe
• What is a superstar tutor
• Interaction as the key for quality learning
• Raising the prestige and income for the teacher profession

[16:45] - ON BUILDING AN EDTECH PRODUCT

• Using Facebook Live for the first proof of concept
• Picking markets for geographical expansion
• Scaling challenges 
• Defining a business model
• Sharing the financial benefits of scale with the teachers
• Dealing with seasonality in the business
• Using mentors and accelerators 

[36:30] - ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDTECH AND FUTURE OF LEARNING

• Different learning models fit different people
• Blended online/offline model for the future
• Using the workshop format for school education
• The politicization of the educational system
• Role of new technologies in learning
• Disadvantages of learning online
• Gamification of learning
• Creating content for different learning types
• Adding more freedom of choice for students
• The future for Memby

To reach out to Eimantas/Memby use:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eimantas-bekeza/

Website: https://karjera.digiklase.lt/

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Support for this episode comes from Nexpay > https://paynexpay.com/

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