Building a Company: What the Journey Looks Like From the Inside
4:15 - 4:45
Matthew Gross began his career as a music teacher in the South Bronx. He would go on to found Newsela, an education company that offers curated, differentiated instructional content and serves over 40 million students and 3 million teachers. Gross, who served as CEO of Newsela until this year and is now the company’s executive chairman, will talk about the origins of the company, its expansion over the past decade, and the lessons that he learned during the journey about building relationships with school districts, developing a beloved ed tech product, and managing growth. Newsela was recently named one of Fast Company’s most innovative companies and was a 2020 winner of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Award. Deloitte also named Newsela one of the fastest-growing tech companies.
