Sam Gu
Co-founder and CEO
Meet the team.
We are students who have sat on both sides of the problem, and we're building the tool we wanted in the classes we just left.
Sillion started in classrooms and university lecture halls. We watched the same thing happen in both: students reaching for whatever answered fastest, and teachers absorbing the cost of it.
Each of us has seen it up close. Teacher burnout, student disengagement, administrative work that crowds out the actual teaching, and personal attention that does not scale past one classroom.
We're building Sillion to work on that, and we would rather be judged on whether a real class keeps using it than on anything we say here.
Founders
What we hold to
- Student-centric
- Everything we build serves the student actually doing the work, not the dashboard above them.
- Teacher-first
- Tools that support a teacher's judgment rather than substitute for it. The grade stays with the person who knows the class.
- Honest about what works
- We would rather ship one thing a classroom keeps using than a list of features nobody opens twice.
We're hiring the first few people.
If the manifesto reads like something you already believe, we want to hear from you.