“Nice to meet you! Please call me Jacob. Even when I’m 60,” said Edify founder and recent WashU alum, Jacob Zax. With this introduction, I quickly realized that Jacob, although determined and professional, approaches his entrepreneurial endeavors with childlike wonder, which is convenient considering his company is geared toward directing a child’s sense of wonder towards learning about music.
According to Jacob, Edify is a seven-person Denver company dedicated to making music education more accessible, creative, and fun for kids. Their new free app, MusiQuest, teaches kids how to compose their own music with lessons that first explain the fundamental roles of music (melody, harmony, chords, bass, and drums), and then go on to teach beginners how to create their own songs in different styles from classical to pop. MusiQuest is an educational expansion of Edify’s first app, Sketch-a-Song, which has been used by over 300,000 people to create over 1,750,000 songs to date. Jacob chatted about founding Edify and his entrepreneurial experience.
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