Payal is a 22 year old education entrepreneur. Before Social MOOC Taker, she founded two startups, one of which (also in the edtech space) took her to the semifinals of the Thiel Fellowship. She's really passionate about edtech and has worked at several other edtech startups as well. Payal's a psychology major at Yale-NUS, a liberal arts college in Singapore by Yale and the National University of Singapore.

Sarah is a teacher turned UI/UX designer. Having taught in several schools across different states and countries, Sarah saw the need for better technology in education and became a UI/UX designer to design better products for education.

Ben is a self taught developer whose been involved in the education world as a teacher, developer and designer. Before Social MOOC Taker Ben's experience in e-learning involved writing a migration script to move 20K+ courses across e-learning platforms, and developing an award winning Moodle theme for Andrews University.