Best in Class

Carl Sjogreen could tell early on that the Covid-19 pandemic was going to affect his business. It didn’t take long before he found out just how much.

In January, Sjogreen saw that his education app, Seesaw, was experiencing a drastic uptick in new accounts in Asia. By the following month, some students were posting projects on it at 10 times the normal frequency. As schools there closed, Seesaw became a link for at-home students to their teachers, projects, and classmates. The company’s 55-person, San Francisco-based team quickly built features that would ease the app’s transition from the physical classroom to a virtual learning environment.

Their hard work paid off, helping traffic and usage soar even further when, within