{"id":7739,"date":"2025-06-05T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T04:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=7739"},"modified":"2025-06-07T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:56:29","slug":"founders-parade-matt-mcquillen-of-xello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2025\/06\/05\/founders-parade-matt-mcquillen-of-xello\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Parade: Matt McQuillen of Xello"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Founder-leader name, title & photograph<\/strong>
Matt McQuillen, CEO and Co-Founder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Venture name: <\/strong>
Xello<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single paragraph description of the venture, its primary products or services, and its original value proposition<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xello is an education technology software that helps people build on their strengths in elementary and highschool to build their future careers. It starts out with frequent assessments of the students in their traits, characteristics, strengths and interests and supports their learning with curated resources, courses, social media feeds that support the student in getting extra education outside of school in their area of interest. Xello also formatively curates the extracurricular learning experience outside of the classroom up until their adult careers and beyond. Xello has seen numerous upgrades over the years and could be considered a company that has seen every venture of education technology. Most recently they have incorporated AI into their services to streamline products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A short bio of the founder-leader focusing on a critical analysis of their background, skills and motivation relative to the prospective and prescribed attributes of successful entrepreneurs<\/strong>

Matt McQuillen is someone who has always been interested and curious<\/strong> about professional development. His idea started with asking a question of how people got to where they are and why they do the job they do. Since 1995, he\u2019s dedicated<\/strong> most of his working career in this company with this mission of improving <\/strong>people’s experience in their careers starting from elementary school and all the way to when they\u2019re adults. On top of that, Matt is still intimately involved in the day to day<\/strong> of the business, assisting, mentoring and growing the business in all of its aspects. Xello\u2019s team, board and advisors are all named on the website, everyone from the leadership team to the engineering team to the marketing team to the sales team. Each one is important in forming and working on this technology since the 1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any personal reflections this analysis has inspired regarding your own entrepreneurial potential.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I chose this founder because of his focus on career growth and development (the field that I am in) and how his journey is still on-going. After 30 years, he\u2019s still in the same company and the same role and still finding ways to grow the company and find ways to improve the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founder-leader name, title & photographMatt McQuillen, CEO and Co-Founder Venture name: Xello A single paragraph description of the venture, its primary products or services, and…<\/p>\n

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