How I Built Resilience: Jessie Woolley-Wilson of DreamBox

Hey everyone, and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition. On these episodes, we're talking with entrepreneurs and other business leaders about how they're meeting this very challenging moment in new and creative ways. And today we're gonna hear from Jesse Woolley Wilson, the CEO of Dreambox. Dreambox is an online learning platform that uses educational games to teach math to kids. And it's become more popular than ever as many schools in the US are opening back up, but Only online. Jesse joined me from Dreambox's headquarters in Bellevue, Washington. So for people who who aren't familiar with it, can you just kind of g give us a a description of Dream Box? Sure. Dreambox is uh

K through eight, math. program. That delivers personalized learning. for every child on it. So it's engaging, kids think they're doing games, but they're actually doing very serious math learning. So you have, I think, about two hundred and seventy plus employees now.

How are you managing the staff remotely? It's been a lot of change for us. So there were two phases of this evolution post-COVID. First phase was to survive. And the second phase was to thrive.

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