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00:00Education has now become something that for a long time peoplekind of ignored a little bit. Right. It was out operating in the background there with pandemic. We also like reassess howimportant it is. And I think we prioritized you know what we need to do in education.I never set out to start a technology company. I didn't know a venture capital was in the beginning to me. I saw this problemin my class and I want to solve it. And as I had known Roberto who was my co-founder from from working together. My previoustutoring business he had built the back. And that was essentially just like a booking and scheduling software. But Ihad the idea to move this online. A co-founder. I need a technical person to build it. So I pitched him on it. That wasseven years ago. We spent an enormous amount of time at the beginning really focusing on what our customers and studentswould need. We spent four years working on the product from the service side of the business. And we've only been in market forabout three years. Our view is that we want to be able to help as many students aswe possibly can. There's obviously exceptions. Tutoring is cheapest. So if you have a difficult time reading orcommunicating through the written form it can be difficult. Right. We do have some accessibility components built in. Theymay not necessarily be the best most ideal solution for you but for the majority of students. Right. This is really designed forthem. And we've built this in collaboration with them. So enormous. Part of what we've developed has been done workingwith students working with teachers working with administrators to try and solve this problem for as many students as possible.We're constantly improving. We're always trying to add new features new functionality new accessibility tools things thatjust allow more students to be able to take as much advantage of it as they possibly can.Absolutely 100 percent. We actually get applications from time to time from high school students like you do internships or doprojects on us. We're I expect definitely to see our students want to be tutors and that we've got we've definitely anticipateand then eventually those tutors are going to move into other roles and the administrative side of the business. I think ifwe're successful students are going to see the impact that we're having as a student. Right. Recognize the fact that we aresolving this problem for equity. You we are actually changing education and transforming our school system. And they're goingto want to be part of that. The idea of getting involved in municipal politics is somethingI think young people should consider an ongoing basis because typically you've seen sort of the older representation on citycouncil and we've run a campaign that was essentially that voice of the younger generation. And we wanted to be able to representall of those people in a really meaningful way. And that was getting involved in council. It's not just you know writing aletter or you know standing up at a meeting. It's actually being around the table. And to be honest that that aligns quite a bitwith where you a paper because we're all trying to improve society. Right. We want to make things better. It's not just ajob. It's not just you know something to pay the bills. There is a mission behind it and being involved politically. You knowit's a very thankless role. You miss your politics. You don't get a ton of letters from people saying you're doing a great joband that's OK. You can experience it yourself and see what's going on.

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How Paper Helps Reprioritize Education With Online Tutoring

Phil Cutler, Paper CEO & Founder, shares how a discrepancy he saw in his classroom led to the founding of Paper, an online tutoring platform, for students who cannot afford private tutoring. He also talks about why he thinks it is important for young people to get involved in municipal politics. (Source: Bloomberg)

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