https://www.tella.tv/video/meet-the-ceo-of-adexium-gbph
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The role in 30 seconds
Our core goal is to drive as much positive impact on the world as humanly possible. We believe education is the clearest place to do that.
Education shapes both the lives people build and what they go on to create. It should be where students discover what they care about, develop the capabilities to pursue it and lay the foundations for productive and fulfilling lives.
Yet education is only a fraction of what it could be. Too many students spend thirteen years learning through obligation rather than curiosity, then leave without loving learning, discovering something they care deeply about or knowing what work or life they want to build. Their attention is increasingly captured by less fulfilling, short-term dopamine loops that AI may make far more powerful.
A fundamental improvement could therefore transform both the lives students go on to live and what they later create for everyone else. That makes rebuilding education one of the greatest opportunities for societal impact.
Despite that opportunity, education attracts only a tiny fraction of the talent and resources society directs towards fields like AI and quant. This creates an impact arbitrage. An exceptional person can often have a greater marginal impact in education than in a field where extraordinary talent and resources are already heavily concentrated.
Mission: Rebuild education so every student on Earth loves learning.
Vision: Every student leaves school curious, passionate and prepared to live a productive and fulfilling life.
We believe curiosity-led, mastery-based learning is how we get there: students build genuine understanding while increasingly pursuing the questions that interest them.
Other education companies have pursued similar missions, but none has come remotely close to achieving them globally. Previous EdTech could scale software and workflows, but not the intelligence required to understand every student individually. It made schools incrementally better, not fundamentally different.
AI changes that. Software can now provide individual tutoring and feedback for every student, return enormous amounts of time to teachers and materially transform a school. If that difference becomes large and visible enough, the product itself can create the urgency and pull previous EdTech lacked.
Education remains an extraordinarily difficult industry. To produce an outcome no EdTech has produced before, every function must be world-class. Our benchmark cannot be existing EdTech or the typical Australian startup. It has to match the standard of teams like Anthropic and SpaceX, perhaps even exceed it, because we are pursuing comparable scale in a harder industry.
Education has never had an organisation able to concentrate that calibre of talent and resources behind the problem. We want Edexia to become it. At global scale, that could mean building the first trillion-dollar education company. The number is not the goal. It is shorthand for the value created for students and teachers and the talent and resources we could keep reinvesting into making education better.
We pair that ambition with a pragmatic, value-first plan in which every step must create enough value to earn the next. Assessment is our first foundation: Edexia learns each teacher's standards, gives teachers hours back and gives students far more frequent, useful feedback. This foundation has been used across more than 30 schools, and we have raised approximately US$4.2M from experienced education and technology backers.
The next product and engineering problems are still largely unsolved. We are hiring both Founding AI/Software Engineers and Engineering Interns to own meaningful parts of that problem: AI quality, infrastructure, learning systems and the product experience teachers and students use every day.
There are two ways to join. You can join full-time, ordinarily with the intention of committing for at least one year, or complete a three-month internship. We usually recommend a one-week, in-person work trial so both sides can assess the fit through real work. If arranging a separate trial is impractical, we may proceed directly to a full-time offer where the interview process gives both sides enough confidence.
This is not a conventional engineering role, internship or nine-to-five. Our engineering model is fully in person. We expect to stay in Brisbane until around Christmas 2026, then remain in Brisbane or move to Sydney. We expect to remain in Australia until early-to-mid 2027, with a likely move to San Francisco around mid-2027 alongside our Series A plans. The locations and timing may change. Living in the company house is optional and strongly recommended because it makes collaboration and moving with the team much simpler. You may live elsewhere, including with a partner, and commute. Full-time hires need to be willing and practically able to move with the team, including managing changing rentals if they arrange their own accommodation. We are looking for people who want extraordinary impact and are willing to make an extraordinary commitment in pursuit of it. In return, you will receive unusual ownership, an extraordinarily steep learning environment and the opportunity to help build both the technical system and the engineering culture Edexia becomes.
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