Edtech Series: Remind

Brett Kopf, Remind, Educational Company

I don’t think I will even be able to explain to people how dramatically big the business is that today’s guest created.

Brett Kopf is the co-founder of Remind, a messaging platform that helps teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to communicate.

We’ll find out how he did it.

Brett Kopf

Remind

Brett Kopf is the co-founder of Remind, a messaging platform that helps teachers, parents, students, and administrators in K–12 schools to communicate.

Andrew: My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their audience, how they built their businesses for an audience of entrepreneurs. I’m a little tongue tied because joining me is someone who listened to my interviews and built a company, a phenomenal company that I don’t think we will Brett even be able to explain to people how dramatically big this business that you created is, but we’ll attempt.

Brett Kopf is the founder of remind. They are like Slack for school. It’s the way that teachers can communicate with their students, the way the parents and teachers can talk to each other. The whole thing. It isn’t. How many schools is it in now? Or how do we give me some stats about how big this is?

Brett: Sure. Uh, we have 30 million active users, uh, over 70% of teachers in the United States use it. And as a measure of engagement, they send over a hundred million...

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