Want-to-know vs. need-to-know
Here’s the most important framework you need for assessing the viability of an education startup.
Universities don’t HAVE TO charge outrageous tuition
Just because a university can charge whatever it wants doesn’t mean it should.
Universities are addicts
Tuition revenue is the fix universities can never quit, and it’s destroying everything they claim to stand for.
Optionality is a design flaw
Telling students they can be anything sounds inspiring until you realize nobody is helping them become something.
A single epiphany doesn't justify the cost of college
1 aha moment is not equal to $30,000 X 4.
Everything’s a trade, so everyone should go to trade school
You heard me. Everything is a trade.
Universities LOVE rejecting your kids
They don’t prepare students for the workforce, so they just put an “approved” stamp on them.
The student-financing industrial complex
It emerged because no sane lender would lend money to a college student. Pega6 is fixing that.
Universities can’t be fixed
They’re mis-staffed, have an unchanging culture, and are just too big.
My daughter’s first driving lesson
How my daughter’s first driving lesson shows that our 19-year-old pega6 grads will run circles around 22-year-old college grads.
Employers want cake; universities keep sending flour & sugar
Universities are the worst bakers ever.
Debunking college myths #6: College is about students finding their path
Christopher Columbus had a better idea of where he was going than college students do.
Education is a supply chain, not a pipeline
Education shouldn’t just transport students from the beginning to the end. It should all value along the way.
EdTech doesn’t fail by accident; it fails by design
Edtech is a graveyard of startups and the VCs who invest in them.
One metric to rule them all
Who cares about accreditation or US News & World Report rankings. There’s only one metric that matters for higher ed . . .
Treating students as the product is the best thing you can do for them
Universities see students as their customers. They’re wrong.
In the AI age, our savings will fund our re-skilling
Soon we’ll no longer save for retirement. We’ll save to fund our “career cycles,” and we’ll need a new kind of higher ed to do it.