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Sphere
Corporate education platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Education
- Training
- SaaS
- Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To democratize access to elite education.
Our take
Sphere was born out of frustration with the way virtual education was being handled during the pandemic. Today, with the goal to become the largest decentralized corporate university, Sphere offers live, cohort-based courses, run by vetted leading experts, to upskill current professionals.
Indeed, this is a large and growing market, but one that has low satisfaction; hence it is perhaps unsurprising that Sphere has managed to bring on a global customer base since its recent conception, with annual contracts with companies such as Tinder and Accenture. The platform has unique prestige with instructors from the likes of Netflix and Slack, such as Ronny Kohavi, the designer of the AB testing systems at Airbnb, Microsoft and Amazon.
The start-up connected with venture capitalists after being accepted into a recent Y Combinator cohort, and has received seed funding, which will be invested into growing out the growth and engineering teams, as well as sourcing more bulk contracts with enterprise clients.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Strong culture - At Sphere we hire people not roles. Which means that we want you to bring your unique ideas and approaches to work and break (not fit into) the corporate mould
- Early employee equity - We want people who join us to feel vested into the future of Sphere. We offer early joiners equity packages to align interests to the success of the platform
- Unlimited PTO, no strings attached - We know that employees do their best work when they’re well-rested, energized, and have the time to recharge
Company values
- Fearlessness - Whether you are one of our employees, a client or an instructor, we value people who have the audacity to speak their mind and effect change
- Uplift your team - We are conscientious and support each other through the ups and the downs. We work as a team and give each other autonomy and responsibility
- Run fast, iterate faster - We like to move fast and iterate to success. We believe fast decisions generate valuable learnings and are far better than slow or no decisions
Leadership
Adrian Sarstedt
(CTO)Previous experience as a Software Engineer for StockLight and Accept Care, Machine Learning Engineer for Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, and served as a Stadium Manager for Melbourne University Sport.
Nicholas Rudder
(CEO)Co-founded Pledger, matching enterprises to charity events. Previous experience as an Associate for Macquarie Group, Board Observer for InLoop and Console Group and as a Technology Consultant for PwC.