Hey founding members! Welcome to the team!! 🥳
This is an important summer here at Fiveable and we're so excited to build alongside you. This document will kick things off with some general overviews, introductions, expectations, and next steps. Please read through everything and complete the tasks outlined below.
<aside> âš¡ The most important thing to know about joining the Fiveable team is that everything moves fast and everyone is very flexible. We build as we go and we move quickly. All we ask from you is that you are open-minded, opinionated, and patient as we adapt.
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Meet the Fiveable team!
Read the story of our journey:
The journey of Fiveable has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. 🎢
Read through the toggles to see the full timeline of what has happened.
We're building an accessible social learning network to democratize education.
There are two main problems we have always tried to solve for both students and teachers. The first is accessibility to high quality resources. The inequity of APs is largely because of gaps in available resources, just like what happens with SAT. Students with resources do better because they have tutors, new textbooks, and unlimited ways to improve scores. We always tried to reimagine what could be possible for students if high quality resources were available for everyone.
In the last two years, we have worked to solve for this through our content library of live streams, videos, study guides, trivia, and blog posts. We focused on creating the best content for the AP subjects we supported and everything was either free or very low cost so that all students could use them.
Now that we have so many students using Fiveable, we are interested in scaling our content creation so that we can have more free content that covers more subjects. The best way to scale is to allow for users to submit content they created or content they like. We will become a hub for all of it and we're super excited to move into the next phase of the content library.
The second problem we are solving for is motivating students by bringing them together. AP students often find themselves studying alone or struggling to stay motivated to get through all of the content. On Fiveable, students come together during live streams and trivia chats to connect, discuss topics, and share content. But we want to make this possible all the time, not just in a live event.