Justin Gordon (@justingordon212) talks with Ted Blosser (@TedBlosser), CEO and Co-Founder of WorkRamp, the leading end-to-end training platform for educating employees and customers at scale. Founded in 2015, WorkRamp empowers every professional to reach their full potential through learning. As leaders in learning, they firmly believe that the best businesses thrive when their employees feel supported and equipped with the proper tools to succeed. WorkRamp is committed to building a platform focused on revolutionizing the way we all learn. They’re creating amazing learner experiences to engage your employees, customers, and partners in a completely different way. Today, organizations from hypergrowth startups to Fortune 500 companies use WorkRamp to build the most successful teams in the world. Prior to founding WorkRamp, Ted and his co-founder Arsh Mand worked together at Box.
Website: https://www.workramp.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedblosser/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TedBlosser
Show Notes:
-How Ted Blosser and his co-founder Arsh Mand sought out the opportunity to found WorkRamp
-The first iteration of WorkRamp and the evolution of the platform
-The challenge of the product market fit journey and defining their target customer
-Recent labor market trends that resulted from the pandemic and how they influenced today’s version of WorkRamp
-The variety of use cases for WorkRamp and how they cater to the needs of companies as they evolve
-How they’ve been mindful about narrowing down the huge TAM of workplace training
-What has fueled WorkRamp’s growth in recent years
-How they were able to have the confidence to go against the grain of market trends
-How they’re adjusting to meet social trends, consumer needs, and modern attention spans
-The big vision for WorkRamp and how Ted’s approach to growth will get them there
More about the show:
The Vitalize Podcast, a show by Vitalize Venture Capital (a seed-stage venture capital firm and pre-seed 300+ member angel community open to everyone), dives deep into the world of startup investing and the future of work.
Hosted by Justin Gordon, the Director of Marketing at Vitalize Venture Capital, The Vitalize Podcast includes two main series.
The Angel Investing series features interviews with a variety of angel investors and VCs around the world. The goal? To help develop the next generation of amazing investors.
The Future of Work series takes a look at the founders and investors shaping the new world of work, including insights from our team here at Vitalize Venture Capital.
More about us:
Vitalize Venture Capital was formed in 2017 as a $16M seed-stage venture fund and now includes both a fund as well as an angel investing community investing in the future of work. Vitalize has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
The Vitalize Team:
Gale - https://twitter.com/galeforceVC
Caroline - https://twitter.com/caroline_yeager
Justin - https://twitter.com/justingordon212
Vitalize Angels, our angel investing community open to everyone:
https://vitalize.vc/vitalizeangels/
