Using experiments to evolve product strategy: Mark Horner, CEO, Siyavula

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Mark is the CEO of Siyavula Education, a social enterprise focused on building rich, integrated learning experiences for maths and science using science and technology.
Siyavula has been in the news recently after receiving a $1,5 million grant from Google to make its adaptive practice service available to learners in South Africa and Nigeria. (More here: https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/google-gives-15m-grant-to-siyavula-for-free-learning-platform-11374360)

Siyavula's primary commercial offering is an adaptive practice service for mathematics, physics and chemistry in high school. Pupils have completed more than 15 million excercises on the platform.
Siyavula has also developed a catalogue of openly-licensed textbooks in collaboration with educators, sponsors and the Department of Basic Education, and has put more than 10 million textbooks on school desks.
https://www.siyavula.com/

More about Mark:
Mark has been working in the education sector since 2002 with openness, technology and community as his main tools. He was the Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow for Open and Collaborative resources as well as the co-founder of the Free High School Science Texts project. Mark has a PhD in physics from the University of Cape Town and conducted his research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California on the results from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.