The GSV Big 10: A $250,000 Stamp?
The GSV Big 10: A $250,000 Stamp?
The key to happiness, college haters, after the apocalypse...
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New Episode of Ed on the Edge ⬇️
🎙️ Ep 23 · Michael Moe & Brent Peus: GSV + Dash Media at Imagine AI LIVE 2024 | Ed on the Edge | Dash Media
The foundation of investment is research. Research is in the same family as media, and we use this combination to share our ideas and amplify our content. This model kicks our research process into overdrive and enables us to tap into the knowledge of our community, while hopefully teaching our audience a thing or two along the way. In our view, there is no better way for us to iterate on ideas to optimize outcomes. Keep telling us where we’re right and where we’re wrong!
🚨 ICYMI: Episode 22 of Ed on the Edge Jim Barnett: CEO & Co-Founder of Wisq
Don’t worry, be happy. Batting average, slugging percentage, impact…any way you look at it, Jim Barnett is in contention for the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame. He has been President/Chairman/CEO of EIGHT Silicon Valley businesses, with multiple successful exits under his belt. His most recent venture, Wisq, leverages AI to help people to achieve happiness at work. Tune in for a fantastic conversation.
Is the Workplace the New College Campus? | Work Shift
Back to the future. For millennia, people learned crafts through apprenticeships (carpenters, blacksmiths, potters). While that teaching style faded away in many parts of the world, Germany is a country that continued this different model for formal skill acquisition. Different strokes for different folks – not everyone has been attached to the “college for all” mantra. We know that a growing cohort of young people is asking “College at all?” and vocational schools are rising as traditional colleges are falling. This story on the UK suggests it is becoming a global phenomenon. Many find six-figure tuition and 4 years of opportunity cost unjustifiable in terms of ROI. When the market calls, listen.
Naval Ravikant on Higher Education and Credentialing
Sometimes it’s helpful to think in terms of extremes when working to figure something out. Founder of AngelList and a clear, original thinker, Naval Ravikant gives us some tough things to chew on. The reality is, for us to move forward as a society, we need to continue to iterate on the ways we acquire our knowledge and skills to reach our potential.
AI Agents, The New Workforce We’re Not Quite Ready For | Josh Bersin
AI agents have the potential to be super employees that never take PDOs, are available around the clock, and make organizations hyper-efficient. Proper implementation of this “new workforce” will create time dividends and send productivity soaring. This isn’t man vs. machine, it’s man and machine…
What School Didn’t Teach Us: How to Succeed |
“Don’t let education get in the way of your learning.”
Learning Outside the Box continues to be the secret to success. It’s not about where you go, but what you know…it’s about knowledge, not college. People are able to build their knowledge portfolios in a number of ways, but learning to learn is foundational to building a thriving life.
Larry Elder on School Choice | The Megyn Kelly Show
Former California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder outlines reasons why radical change needs to happen with school choice in America.
I went to Baltimore 30 years ago to see the public schools and could not believe my eyes. Three decades later, despite several initiatives including Common Core, 13 schools in the city have ZERO students who are proficient in math. Access to quality education is not only the right thing to do but a fundamental imperative for the future of society…and the civil rights issue of our time. Perhaps most galling is the number of officials who are in charge of improving public schools who send their own children to privates.
Glean: Putting AI to work, at work. |
This is learning outside the box. Glean allows users to access the collective wisdom of the organization and apply it when they need it, where they need it. We used to have just-in-case learning, but now we have just-in-time learning, with knowledge powering the enterprise. Yet another example of learning at the speed of light.
Post-Apocalyptic Education | Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing
The future is increasingly clear. It’s not a question of whether this is going to happen, but of how big it will be and how fast it will arrive. As many have pointed out: AI won't replace humans, but humans using AI will replace humans who don't.
A Revolution Begins in Austin, Texas |
In an environment where we have 1.5 college closures per week, opening a new university is definitely zigging while others are zagging. The audacious leaders that have launched UATX created a higher ed institution that is wildly supportive of divergent views and “forbidden” discourse after seeing not only a hole in the market but a gap in society. Hats off to our friends Bari Weiss, Joe Lonsdale, Pano Kanelos, Arthur Brooks, Larry Summers, and many others for pulling this off.
This Week’s People Moves
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Zaid Qureshi: Learnly ➡️ Uplift AI, Co-Founder
Marcelo Modica: OneTrust ➡️ Coursera, Chief People Officer
Alexander Tsigler: UC Berkeley ➡️ Duolingo, AI Research Engineer
Siddharth Arora: Razorpay ➡️ Coursera, Product Leader
Shreya Jain: Quizizz ➡️ ShareChat, Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Jack McDermott: Chegg Inc. ➡️ ElevenLabs, Growth