Marathon Education YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Marathon Education went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a Education company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2022
Industry: Education
Team size: 20
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Duc PhamFounder
Tung TranFounder

What Marathon Education does

Marathon Education provides live interactive tutoring classes to K-12 students in Vietnam, we're the fastest-growing edtech player disrupting the $5bn offline tutoring market by allowing students to learn online with the best teachers in large-class or small-class format. The company is founded by Duc, former education private equity investor at TPG Capital - where Duc invested in K-12 education and edtech businesses in Vietnam & Southeast Asia. Duc co-founded Marathon with Tung - serial tech entrepreneur in Vietnam who grew his last startup - Christina's to 500 employees across 8 cities.

Marathon Education's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Marathon Education, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Marathon Education

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Live after-school tutoring for K-12 Vietnam

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We provide live online tutoring classes for K-12 students in Vietnam. Our platform connects students with the best teachers in either large-class or small-class formats, replacing offline tutoring with interactive online learning.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and the company is based there with some team members working remotely as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We based the company in Ho Chi Minh City because it's where our market is and where we can access great local teachers and early users. Vietnam's large and growing K-12 market makes this the natural home for Marathon Education.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Marathon Education YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Marathon Education's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Marathon Education would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.