In a moment, you’ll meet TK Gondo — Co-Founder and CEO of Polygon Students — a software platform for college and university resident life teams to manage, grow and retain their residence communities.TK was born in Zimbabwe, but moved to Essex in the UK when he was just 4 years old. In grade school, he thought he’d be a pilot, but by the time he was in high school, he was determined to join the military.He trained physically and mentally for two years in hopes of joining the British Armed Forces, but was ultimately denied due to an unforeseen medical condition.Unsure of what he was supposed to do with his life, he enrolled in university and decided to study English literature. TK wasn’t thriving in school, so he dropped out and moved to Barcelona to work in business development at a financial services firm.But then, TK was bit by the entrepreneurship bug and the entire trajectory of his life changed. Listen in to hear the story of how an English literature university drop-out built one of the most exciting new startups in the edtech space today.Learn more about this episode and about our sponsors in our show notes.

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