Piazza was founded in 2009 by Pooja Sankar with the goal of ensuring every student has the opportunity to learn from their classmates. It launched at Stanford to provide homework help and re-branded as Piazza in 2011. By 2015, Piazza had reached 1 million students at over 1500 universities in 90 countries. Piazza charges companies a subscription fee, typically over $2000 per semester, and has over 350 company subscribers. It uses students' question and answer activity to help companies identify and recruit top talent. Piazza predicts continued success by providing a useful product for both students and teachers, as well as an increasingly powerful recruiting tool.

1. Chris Bauer
Bauercj
November 15th, 2017

2. PRODUCTS

3. PRODUCTS
If you're not paying for the product, you are the product

4. PRODUCTS
• Build brand
• Profile top hires
• Expand reach

5. HISTORY
 Founded in 2009 by Pooja Sankar
 Goal: To ensure every student has the
opportunity to learn from their
classmates

6. TIMELINE
 2009: Piazzza launches at Stanford to provide
homework help
 2011: Leaves closed Beta and rebrands as Piazza
 2014: Launch of Piazza careers
 2015: Roll out of “superstar” recruiting tool
 2016: Reach 1 million students at 1500+
universities in 90 countries

7. FINANCIALS

8. BUSINESS MODEL
• Charge fee to recruiters a
subscription fee
• $2000+ per semester
• 350+ companies

9. SECRET SAUCE -
STUDENTS
 Easy to use
 Quick answers without going
to office hours
 Students use for 2-3 hours a
night

10. SECRET SAUCE - COMPANIES
Targeted Searches based on past success

11. COMPETITION
Specific
class
Built for
Q/A
Open to
Public
Provides career
platform
Designed for
Students
Free
Wikispaces/wikis Universities
Individuals
Canvas/ other LMS
Quora
Stack Overflow
Piazza

12. PREDICTION - SUCCESS
• Good product for students and teachers
• Good recruiting tool with increasingly powerful tools

13. QUESTIONS?

14. SOURCES
 https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/piazzza
 https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/pooja-sankar-using-technology-remove-barriers
 https://web.archive.org/web/20110207123410/https://www.piazzza.com/
 Piazza.com
 https://recruiting.piazza.com/
 https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/25/with-box-yelp-and-palantir-on-board-piazza-lands-8m-from-
khosla-and-brings-recruiting-to-its-social-qa-platform-for-students/
 https://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/24/piazza-opens-college-homework-site-to-recruiters/
 https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/piazza-rolls-out-recruiting-tool-to-identify-superstar-
programming-student/
 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/technology/04piazza.html?pagewanted=1&ref=technology
 https://craft.co/piazza