ABOUT US

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Jeff

Jeff Crawford (he/him) wants you to love what you teach and what you do. He’s been a teacher for over 18 years with experience leading across regions in the pacific northwest and facilitating with illustrative mathematics around the US. He’s your greatest co-thinking partner. He’s your biggest champion. He’s who you want to see in the teachers room when you open that door to take a beat.

Senior director of community success

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Erica

Erica Crane, EdD (she/her) wants you to feel like you’re on the best team there ever was so you can learn audaciously. She and her best team created a school that was centered on deeper learning for equity with a competency-based, student-centered approach. she started her career teaching in the south bronx and has coached, consulted, Professored, and supported educational systems across the US. she’s wildly passionate about developing classrooms for liberation and educators for a future we can (RE)Imagine together.

CEO, co-founder

Erica@sideby.ai

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Mike

Mike mendelson (he/him) wants you to fail really fast. He’s taught, launched and led companies, been tasked with transitioning a large school district to a competency-based approach, and believes in partnering educators for meaningful conversations to accelerate learning. He’s dedicated his life to making this possible and scalable. He’s also the first person to say “yes you should do that” anytime you’re not sure if you should but you really, really should.

CTO, co-founder

Mike@sideby.ai

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DIEGO

Diego Gonzalez Cruz (he/him) wants you to make experiments. To prototype. To make slime and code computers. A scientist turned educator turned software developer, he believes in a human-centered approach—where technology and AI exist to enhance human potential. He founded a startup in Chile to promote STEAM learning in schools because he knows education expands the horizon of possibilities. His flow state? Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and making music.

AI-ENABLED SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

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CASS

Cass Marketos's friends like to joke that she has had "every single job that exists." Which is sort of true. She has worked in tech, the arts, nonprofits, and government, in addition to running the community compost in her neighborhood, and regularly moonlighting as a teacher about dirt. She has been on the founding team of several startups, specializing in mission-driven organizations that strive to make the world a better place. She has built and nurtured communities all across the digital landscape, as well as IRL in her own neighborhood. 

Product management consultant

interested in working with us?

There are no current openings at this time. We will post them here and on linkedin.

Wellfound will have any full time engineering positions when we have those roles available.