In conversation with Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman (and LinkedIn co-founder), QuestBridge CEO Ana Rowena Mallari recounts the organization’s 30-year scale journey, during which the program has fostered $5 billion in scholarships and helped 100,000 students. Co-founded by Mallari and Michael McCullough as a summer program at Stanford, QuestBridge now partners with more than 50 schools, transforming how colleges across the U.S. evaluate and admit their incoming classes.
Chapters:
00:00 The problem Ana was seeking to solve
02:17 The first iteration of QuestBridge
04:42 Exploring different models of scale
05:57 Investing & scaling the platform
08:31 Transforming the college application
13:41 “Everything we did had to be scalable”
17:46 Serving students beyond college
19:06 The business lessons behind QuestBridge’s ability to find talented students