Pangea.app breaks 1,000 Students
How should college students get the real-world work experience they need to land a job after school while still maintaining their studies?
Pangea.app is the answer.
A platform that connects college students with short-term paid projects at startups and small businesses who need help with marketing and graphic design.
Pangea.app provides students with short term jobs that enhance their abilities while also benefiting companies with skilled, affordable workers. The platform creates a unique way to build a community of students and business owners.
Pangea.app is taking hold of the college scene and has already doubled its user base in the last month. More than 1,000 different college students from more than 130 schools are currently on the app and the numbers keep going up!
The students using the platform have become known as Pangeans (a.k.a. students who study by day, earn money on the side, and achieve real-world experience with working with incredible founders)
Two examples of Pangeans are Neil Bhammar and Hatti Trimm.
Neil is attending Northeastern University and is the Vice President of the NU Entrepreneurs Club. While Hatti is attending Ohio State University, majoring in Economics and Minoring in Business Analytics & Design Thinking.
Neil has always been driven by activities that he feels passionate about. Upon entering college, Neil discovered that entrepreneurship was such an activity.
He feels that it is an amazing way to learn and develop skills in a real-world environment. And at Northeastern, it has been easy for Neil to get involved with a wide variety of startups. Each semester there are about thirty new start-ups that go through a venture incubator through the NU Entrepreneurs club. These start-ups are supported by the NU Center for Entrepreneurial Education (NUCEE) with a multitude of resources.
Neil learned about Pangea.app for the first time when he was attending a Startup Challenge at an NUCEE event.
He says that,
“Pangea’s mission is fantastic and really serves a niche that is under served.”
He used the app himself to look for engineers to work on his own startup, Melodize. Neil is a good example of how Pangea.app has created a community for entrepreneurs to connect and help each other with a common goal.
In contrast, Hatti is driven more by attaining creative and innovative skills. This started with a knitting class at age 8 and continues to this day by mastering Adobe Creative Cloud Software.
For Hatti, entrepreneurship is a great way to explore self-learning and one’s creative personality. She dove into the startup scene at school and tried to market herself as a design contractor. She said,
I noticed how difficult it was to get experience and find contract work in what I wanted to do — UX design.
Then she stumbled onto Pangea.app, downloaded it, and is now able to market her services more efficiently.
She has become an ambassador for Pangea and meets with organizations around campus to spread the word about the platform. Hatti has gotten the start-up bug by seeing up close through her interactions with Pangea on a grassroots level how exciting and fulfilling the start-up world can be.
Pangea.app is a win / win for all who engage in its platform.
Note: This article was written by the incredible Sasha Kagan, a young Pangean who has very large aspirations to found a company, create value, (and write). A huge thank you to her on the hard work she put into this article for us.
