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by notjoemama 708 days ago
Maybe part of it is seeing education as a massive untapped wallet? There's a reason Teachers Pay Teachers exists and frankly, given the greed of Silicon Valley and existing ED companies, isn't it an environmentally created immune system?
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Teachers and administrators have decades of experience at getting treated as targets for culture-war grandstanding. Having a 28yo tech CEO barely older than their students tell them that a cool website will reverse the effects of poverty is probably just a different flavor.
Maybe. I'd love to see whatever the Apple + MECC version would be today.