Founder Friday with Jesse Gordon from Study Pulse

4 Dec 2025 / Ep. 67 / 31:45

This Founder Friday Scotty is joined by Jesse Gordon, founder of Study Pulse, to talk about the early journey bootstrapping journey in ed tech; including all the learnings and reflections involved in the process.

Jesse is a software engineer and entrepreneur who specialises in bridging the gap between technical architecture and profitable product design. He is the founder of StudyPulse, a bootstrapped AI education platform that he scaled to serve students at over 400 schools, fixing the broken feedback loop for exam prep.

Founder Friday is about works still in progress. Learning from success stories is important, but learning from founders still in the thick of getting to market is just as useful – and sometimes much more realistic.

About Jesse Gordon:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-gordon-ib/

Website: https://studypulse.au

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