Leada
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Leada was a Y Combinator-backed edtech company founded by Brian Liou offering data science training. After an early pivot away from the academic market, it sold customized online data-training programs to enterprises: courses covering BI tools, SQL and Python, each 15 to 20 hours, with instructors providing code reviews and project feedback.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
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- Founded
Founded as a data science training startup aimed at helping students apply data science to real-world examples.
- Pivot to enterprise
Weeks before its Y Combinator demo day, the company pivoted from the academic market to enterprise training, citing long university sales cycles; it signed early enterprise customers such as Zenefits.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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