In the Works | Education for All: Building Branching Minds
Maya Gat took the initial steps to found an EdTech company while on parental leave from her teaching job. “With no belief that it would actually go anywhere, I wrote my submission for a grant from a business incubator at four in the morning, while nursing my kid, using my one free hand to answer their questions with my smartphone,” she said. The application did, in fact, go somewhere: Maya won the no-strings-attached prize of $20,000 — half the yearly salary she was earning as a classroom teache