Meet the Entrepreneur: Keith Frankel
3:28
Grades: 9 - 12
Video Description: Meet Keith Frankel, Co-Founder and CEO of Parlor, a customer collaboration platform for software companies. Frankel claims the Parlor platform transforms the way digital product teams proactively engage their customers in order to build better products. Parlor works by adding a ‘relationship layer’ to a company’s live software product, letting them engage users in highly specialized ways to refine their products, validate their efforts, and de-risk the cost of new feature development. Parlor turns a company’s users into collaborators & their product into a collaboration laboratory.
Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: Business-14**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Ask students to explore the concept of “Startup Business” and come up with their own business idea pitches.
- What is an entrepreneur? List the character traits that a person with that focus has.
- Use the video as part of your students’ exploration of careers and business practices to give students insight into what it takes to create their own business.
*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
