From Course Hero to QuillBot: Andrew Grauer on Building the Alphabet of EdTech
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Andrew Grauer is the co-founder and CEO of Learneo Inc., a leading productivity and learning platform that includes QuillBot, Course Hero, CliffsNotes, LitCharts, Scribbr, LanguageTool, and Symbolab. He also serves as CEO of QuillBot, an AI-powered writing and communications tool. Andrew launched Course Hero in 2006 while at Cornell University and has since grown Learneo into a global platform recognized as one of Inc.’s Best Led Companies.
💡 5 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- The journey from Course Hero to Learnio’s EdTech portfolio
- How QuillBot is reshaping AI-powered writing
- The ongoing tension between learning, doing, and integrity
- Why “translation” is central to AI across text and media
- Andrew’s vision for the future of multimodal EdTech
✨ Episode Highlights:
[00:02:27] Andrew Grauer shares the origins of Course Hero
[00:07:47] Building Learnio’s family of EdTech brands
[00:08:24] Why QuillBot stood out and was acquired in 2021
[00:14:18] Bridging learning and doing through AI-powered writing
[00:20:31] Lessons from two decades of integrity and plagiarism debates
[00:26:18] The multimodal future of QuillBot beyond text
[00:30:39] Translation as the core of AI’s power
[00:37:43] How AI can help learners move seamlessly from learning to doing
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