As Rachel Romer lay in a hospital bed, recovering from a stroke she suffered at just 34 years old, the edtech founder conducted some light market research.
Just as Romer, then CEO of Guild, was recuperating from a debilitating stroke that had left the right side of her body paralyzed, her company was in the midst of an expansion into upskilling programs for health care workers. Romer eventually began polling the various nurses taking care of her about their work.
