Quizlet Explained

Quizlet
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Type:Education
Founder:Andrew Sutherland
Owner:Quizlet Inc.
Ceo:Kurt Beidler
Location City:San Francisco, California
Area Served:130 countries worldwide
Language:English, German, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional and Simpified), Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Russian, French, Quebec French, Indonesian, Dutch, Italian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Registration:Optional
Revenue:Freemium (ads/subscriptions)

Quizlet is a multi-national American company that provides tools for studying and learning.[1] Quizlet 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] 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.[8] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user.[9]

Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website.[10]

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

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.[12]

Quizlet hired Matt Glotzbach as CEO in May 2016 and launched a redesign in August 2016.[13] 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.[14]

In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.[15] [16] 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".[17]

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.[18]

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.[19] [20] [21]

In November 2022, Quizlet announced a new CEO, Lex Bayer, the former CEO of Starship Technologies.[22] In March 2023, Quizlet started to incorporate AI features with the release "Q-Chat", a virtual AI tutor powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT API.[23] [24] [25] Quizlet launched four additional AI powered features in August 2023 to assist with student learning.[26] [27]

In July 2024, Kurt Beidler, the former co-CEO of Zwift, joined Quizlet as the new CEO.[28] [29]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bhutta . Fatima . Quizlet reaches 50 Million Users milestone . TechEngage . TechEngage . 25 July 2023 . 18 January 2019.
  2. Web site: Mullen . Audrey . Going to School While Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech . EdSurge . EdSurge . 21 July 2023 . 20 August 2019.
  3. Web site: QUIZLET . . 2021-01-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110728094812/http://www.theinnovationeconomy.org/_layouts/IEC/InnovatorsCorner/InvCrnDetails.aspx?IcrnId=2&LinkId=2&videono=7922161&Vdesc=7 . July 28, 2011 .
  4. Web site: Kolodny . Lora . Popular study app Quizlet faces a moment of truth as a new school year begins . 2023-01-12 . CNBC . en.
  5. Web site: Woods . Jordan . 10 Best Apps That Act As Study Aids . Screen Rant . Screen Rant . 21 July 2023 . 13 January 2023.
  6. Web site: Tynan . Dan . Meet the Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21 . 2022-09-20 . ABC News . en.
  7. Web site: QUIZLET: Join millions and Build Your Own Flashcards, Game Yourself to Smart. SF New Tech. 2013-01-29. November 2010.
  8. Web site: 50,000 registered users!. 2021-04-22. Quizlet. en-gb.
  9. Web site: Celebrating 10 Years of Quizlet.com. 2021-04-22. Quizlet. en-gb.
  10. Web site: Quizlet's Growth Puts It on the Top of the Edtech Stack. EdSurge. 2015-02-08. November 2012.
  11. Web site: Quizlet Now Offers "Speller" Mode in 18 Languages. Free Technology for Teachers. 2015-02-01. July 2011.
  12. News: Kolodny. Lora. 2015-11-23. Quizlet Raises $12 Million to Take Its Popular Study Tools International. Wall Street Journal. 2015-11-23.
  13. Web site: Kolodny . Lora . YouTube VP Matt Glotzbach graduates to CEO role at Quizlet . TechCrunch . TechCrunch . 21 July 2023 . 5 May 2016.
  14. Web site: Kolodny . Lora . Popular study app Quizlet creates a game for groups in the classroom, Quizlet Live . TechCrunch . TechCrunch . 25 July 2023 . 12 April 2016.
  15. Web site: Kolodny . Lora . Popular study app Quizlet faces a moment of truth as a new school year begins . CNBC . CNBC . 21 July 2023 . 23 August 2017.
  16. Web site: Duffy . Jill . Quizlet Review . PCMag . PCMag . 21 July 2023 . 1 October 2021.
  17. Web site: Svaldi . Aldo . Quizlet online learning platform’s new Denver office could bring 300 jobs paying average annual wage of $156K . The Denver Post . The Denver Post . 25 July 2023 . 30 October 2018.
  18. Web site: Free Quizlet Teacher to support remote learning. 2021-04-22. Quizlet. en-gb.
  19. News: Hahm . Melody . 2021-03-25 . Exclusive: Quizlet acquires Slader as it aims to become the one-stop destination for students . Yahoo Finance . 2023-07-03.
  20. Web site: Mascarenhas . Natasha . How is edtech spending its extra capital? . TechCrunch . TechCrunch . 21 July 2023 . 1 April 2021.
  21. Web site: Luk . Serena . Quizlet: A Growing Monopoly on Education . The Vice . The Vice . 21 July 2023 . 12 December 2022.
  22. Quizlet Appoints New Chief Executive Officer. PR Newswire . en.
  23. Web site: Newton . Casey . Who’s actually getting rich off of AI? . The Verge . The Verge . 21 July 2023 . 3 March 2021.
  24. Web site: Wiggers . Kyle . OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers . TechCrunch . TechCrunch . 21 July 2023 . 1 March 2023.
  25. Web site: Kahn . Jeremy . OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT for business customers . Fortune . Fortune . 21 July 2023 . 1 March 2023.
  26. Web site: Ravaglia . Ray . Quizlet Embraces AI And ChatGPT To Transform The Experience Of Studying . Forbes . Forbes . 10 August 2023 . 10 August 2023.
  27. Web site: Ortiz . Sabrina . Quizlet launches four generative AI-powered tools to simplify studying . ZDNET . ZDNET . 10 August 2023 . 8 August 2023.
  28. Web site: Kurt Beidler Appointed as Quizlet’s New CEO to Drive Global Growth . TechEdge AI . TechEdge AI . 24 July 2024 . 23 July 2024.
  29. Web site: Anderson . Ted . Daily Digest: Deutsche Bank looks to hire in San Francisco; Oakland Ballers fire coach . San Francisco Business Times . San Francisco Business Times . 25 July 2024 . 22 July 2024.

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