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William Zhou – An Extraordinary Entrepreneur
William Zhou is the CEO of Chalk, an instruction innovation organization that helps K-12 instructors with their educational program and arranging.
Zhou has been energetic about business since early on, establishing his first organization in secondary school. He dispatched his first Internet business in 2010, which he sold at the age 18 during his first year of software engineering at the University of Waterloo.
Back in secondary school, he used to run a web improvement look for nearby organizations. Building sites was a good time for him yet managing a portion of the clients was simply excruciating.
Zhou originally came to unmistakable quality as a youthful business visionary at 16 years old with the establishing of Design Vetica, a web consultancy with customers from University of British Columbia, Red Cross, and Amnesty International. The association was most popular for Draft Board, an online instrument for architects and customers to work together. In 2011, Zhou sold Draft Board for an undisclosed sum.
In 2012, Zhou helped to establish Chalk.com, K-12 training programming organization. Zhou got the motivation for Chalk.com as he noticed the authoritative responsibility from his own secondary teachers. He saw that instructors are overpowered with undertakings, for example, exercise arranging, appraisal, and assessment. Zhou made Planboard to help instructors plan their exercises simpler.
Chalk interfaces the educational program, guidance, and evaluation measure and gives constant bits of knowledge to teachers to improve scholastics. From little, free schools to enormous, public school organizations, Chalk is behind the scholastic systems impacting a great many understudies.
In 2014, Chalk.com, the parent organization of Planboard, ventured into appraisal apparatuses. Today, Chalk.com is utilized in more than 20,000 schools and has more than 200,000 instructors. In 2015, Zhou was named in Forbes’ Top 30 Under 30 in Education.