San Francisco. Middle of the winter. January 10, 1982. The 49ers had made it all the way to the NFC title game. But, they were facing the Dallas Cowboys, perhaps the strongest team in the entire league, as 3-point underdogs at Candlestick Park. Entering the 4th...
Disrupting [Tech] Education: Two Air Force Veterans Start Edtech Startup
Terry Kim and Jacob Hess, both former Air Force IT instructors, decided to quit their high-paying corporate jobs to start an IT training edtech company called NexGenT (short for Next Generation Training). The reason? Well, they were (and still are) sick and tired of...
NexGenT Travels to Portugal for WebSummit!
We've made it to Lisbon, Portugal for WebSummit! The timing is perfect as we just finished up fundraising in SF after living there for 2 months post AngelPad for the summer and recently relocated our company to Silicon Valley. We went from a founding team of 2 to...