About Us - Aced (formerly Exponent)
Helping you land the job of a lifetime.
Our mission is to empower people to achieve their career aspirations and reach their full potential.
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Built differently, from day one.
Created by experts
Learn to beat tech interviews directly from the FAANG employees who ask them. Built by experts for future experts.
Innovative tools
We've built custom tools for acing the interview, including interactive lessons and a peer mock interview matching platform.
Close community
Don't interview alone. Practice with peers to get the inside scoop on interviews and even make new friends.
The principles behind everything we build.
Learn by doing
Real interview practice beats passive study. Every lesson is built around action.
Community over competition
We're building a place where candidates help each other land jobs, not compete in silence.
Interviewers, not theorists
Everything we teach comes from people who have sat on the other side of the table.
Our founding team
Stephen Cognetta
Co-founder
Stephen is the co-founder of Aced. A former Google product manager with an MBA from Stanford, he has coached thousands of candidates through tech interviews and spoken on product management at Google, WeWork, Duke, Yale, and Stanford.
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Jacob Simon
Co-founder
Jacob is the co-founder of Aced. A former software engineer at Dropbox and YC-backed startups, he leads the product and engineering behind Aced's courses and AI practice tools. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in computer science and neuroscience.
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