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Getting Schooled in What’s Important

GROWNUPS AT WORK A brown-bag lunch at EvoText headquarters. Co-founders Johanna Wetmore (lower right) and Christopher Robert (top left, in blue blazer) more or less let the employees choose the way and where they want to work. Some moved out of state and work remotely. The company’s culture isn’t to be confused with a startup run by children, and neither are the perks.

EvoText doesn’t seem like a textbook example of a tech startup. Granted, its 40 full-time employees enjoy great benefits, a liberal time-off policy, and many of the other perks of techdom. But what sets EvoText apart are some of the things not on the menu. It’s a company of computer geeks designing software for teachers to interact with students and dynamically implement curricula—and

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