Meet Roy Gilbert, a former Googler and the CEO of "social learning" company Grockit, who finds similarities between his experience aboard a nuclear attack sub and the world of Silicon Valley. Roy Gilbert is the CEO of Grockit , a 3-year-old social learning company that aims to make test prep more fun, and in the process hopes to democratize what companies like Kaplan typically peddle to the relatively well-to-do. Grockit's users are on track to soon answer their collective 15 millionth question, and each day the site gains more users than would fill the chair-desks of a pair of American high schools
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