Benson Hill and Nerdy didn’t begin with ambitions of becoming public companies. They started in hopes of providing solutions.
Chuck Cohn founded Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) in 2007 as an in-home tutoring business after struggling to find a tutor for help while studying at Washington University. Benson Hill (NYSE: BHIL) began in 2012 to commercialize research out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center focused on improving crop yields.