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SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo
- The product is dead-simple to start, by design. It’s classic low-end disruption. Instead of a heavy LMS built to serve everyone at any size company, SkillMagic helps new engineering and product hires go from 0-to-1 in 1 hour by:
from SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- So many tech companies have the same problem that Jason did at Apple, MightySignal, and Instacart: it’s hard to grow efficiently when critical knowledge is siloed in outdated docs, back-and-forth emails, and worst of all—in people’s brains. Remote work makes it even harder to deliver, measure, and recommend necessary learning to those who need it.
from SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- Ingesting a company’s training and onboarding docs,
from SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- SkillMagic is a mobile-first interactive training and onboarding app for tech companies, initially focused on engineering and product teams. The product creates a unified knowledge cloud that enables all aspects of training in one place, accessible wherever employees work.
from SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo by Packy McCormick
sari added 3y ago
- SkillMagic is a SaaS product built to help train engineering teams at fast-growing companies “with magical simplicity.”
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sari added 3y ago
- Using AI to recommend additional content from the internet that enhances the training on particular subjects (if you’re a junior programmer who codes in Python, for example, it will serve you the top YouTube video on Python),
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sari added 3y ago
- Behind-the-scenes, SkillMagic is building up a database of what makes which types of employees the most productive.
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sari added 3y ago
- Serving quizzes in real-time and gating continued learning based on your results, and recommending additional resources based on where you struggle.
from SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo by Packy McCormick
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