Justin Arenson
- CEO at Campus Tree
GetLatka interview
How Campus Tree Is Building a Student Engagement Platform to Cut College Dropout Rates (Interview with CEO Justin Arenson)
Justin Arenson (CEO of Campus Tree) spoke to Nathan Latka on August 10, 2022.
Campus Tree figures from the interview
- Revenue (August 2022)
- $0 (pre-revenue)
- Founder Ownership (August 2022)
- 95%
- External Funding Raised (August 2022)
- $0
- Years Building (August 2022)
- 3 years
“The sales to universities, the students are the end user.”
“So the platform, the key success of this platform comes down to students wanting to use it, right? If students aren't, this is a student engagement platform. It's meant to help increase retention rates for universities by having students be more connected and involved in such.”
“We're pre revenue. We've got an MVP, but we're redid, but we're redeveloping with the funding off of a, a new design paradigm that we found to be a lot more effective.”
Bio
Graduated college with a B.S. in Business, double minor in Economics & Computer Science. Rowed crew all four years, Varsity Captain for two. Felt a strong passion in college to help make universities a more connected/networking-focused place for students, and so decided to build Campus Tree.