🚨BREAKING: President Trump just told every Governor in the US that they need to switch to paper ballots, same-day voting, Voter IDs and Proof of citizenship.
Does Trump have your Full support on this?
YES or NO?
The dirty little secret of edtech: the biggest names don’t actually care if you learn anything.
As co-founder of Udemy, it is something I reckon with every day…
Duolingo - edtech’s only decacorn, worth $14B. Brilliant app, addictive product, and great for motivation. But let’s be honest: most users can’t hold a basic conversation in their chosen language. It’s a game, not an education.
Masterclass - it’s called “edutainment” for a reason. Great brand and team. But not useful for serious learning.
Udemy/Coursera opened access to millions, but video courses have a fatal flaw: they only work for the most motivated. 4-10% completion rates! I still get DMs about their positive impact, but still average person doesn’t view them as mainstream solutions to education.
Kajabi/Teachable nailed creator monetization. But many (not all) creators don’t prioritize outcomes — just sales. Too many $5,000 “get rich quick” courses with spammy marketing. There are gems, of course, but still not enough quality for mainstream acceptance.
Then there’s University of Phoenix, the worst offender. It proved you could tap federal student loans, deliver poor outcomes, and keep billions in revenue.
Ironically, the best education models — coding bootcamps like App Academy, BloomTech, General Assembly, Galvanize — actually drove real outcomes. But they didn’t quite reach scale. In large part due to unfair (and immoral, imho) practices by the higher education cartel.
Here’s the thing: everyone in this space starts with good intentions.
I know the teams at Duolingo, Udemy, and others. They care. But the incentives of Edtech 1.0 pushed everyone toward engagement and monetization instead of real learning.
Public investors eventually caught on. Consumer growth stalled, B2B slowed, and valuations dropped. Coursera/Udemy are each ~$700M (!!) in annual revenue, but trade at 1.5-2.5x multiples (!!). It is a hard time in edtech.
We need Edtech 2.0.
The next generation needs to deliver real learning outcomes AND high engagement.
There’s a number of companies trying - of course I believe Maven is one of them.
To build multiple $10B+ companies in education, we need to care deeply about whether people actually learn. American competitiveness is literally reliant on rebuilding our education system.
AI is about to trigger the largest upskilling need in modern history. The opportunity is massive — and this time, we can get it right.
It may not seem like it, but I’m optimistic. Out from the ashes of Edtech 1.0 will rise Edtech 2.0. The new generation is going to deliver value, and make people believe again.
So if the Supreme Court can overrule the executive branch, does that mean the executive branch can overrule Supreme Court decisions since they are both “co-equal branches“?
Harvard President Alan Garber: “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”
Do you stand with President Garber?
Please raise ✋
I don’t know which government workers need to hear this but…
In the real world, people are laid off from their jobs at anytime, for any reason.
Constantly.
BREAKING: Reports are coming out that Senator Cassidy (R-LA) is unwilling to vote to confirm RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary.
Let's send him a message... if you think that @SenBillCassidy should vote to confirm RFK Jr., leave a "👍" in the comments.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, is threatening to unseat elected officials if they do not follow his orders to shut down the government during the holidays.
Are we still a democracy or have we already moved to oligarchy and authoritarianism?
There is no universe in which a company with annual revenue of $4.1 million in revenue and LOST $58 million in one year is worth $10 billion. The Trump media merger with Digital World Acquisition was meant to be a massive infusion of cash to Donald--a gift masquerading as an investment.
BREAKING: indicted 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is accidentally humiliated by his own chief lawyer as the lawyer launches into a pathetic courtroom rant that unintentionally exposes Trump as a serial criminal.
Donald Trump’s lawyer embarrassed Trump by begging the judge to allow him to attend the next court hearing “by phone” because Trump has SO many criminal cases against him going full-steam ahead that it would be physically impossible to attend them all in person.
Trump’s lawyer, Christopher Kise, told the judge, “As the Court may be aware, the undersigned counsel for President Trump, Christopher M. Kise, is unable to attend the November 1st hearing in person because he is engaged at trial in New York State Supreme Court. Given this conflict, the undersigned respectfully requests that this Court allow him to attend the November 1, 2023, hearing by phone.”
Trump’s lawyer continued his whiny courtroom rant, declaring that “the fact that they continue to contend that it is appropriate and not a violation of President Trump's due process rights to push forward with back-to-back multi-month trials in different districts with wholly different facts — over a defendant's objection — reveals a central truth about these cases.”
Simply laughable. Trump’s lawyer must not have thought this one through, because instead of making Trump look like the victim of a conspiracy to keep him from winning the pressing back in 2024, it instead painted a vivid picture of Trump as a serial criminal with a schedule that is so packed with felony cases that his lawyers can’t even keep up. The only “central truth” that these countless criminal trials “reveal” is that Trump is a lifelong criminal — and is now finally being held accountable for his actions .
Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Donald Trump MUST be found guilty — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a woke new Twitter competitor that banned Trump for life and is exploding in popularity because Elon Musk banned Tribel’s Twitter account — but he forgot to ban this link to download the new Tribel app: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb
.@ninko50 wants to see Lamar Jackson as a Patriot 👀
"The Patriots instantly become the division favorites and, to me, get right back into that Super Bowl hunt."