jeremy smith

ceo & co-founder

Jeremy is a multi-exit startup executive and the CEO & Co-founder of pega6—an entirely new kind of higher education built for the AI Age. Prior to pega6, he was the COO of LODAS Markets, the President & COO of RiskGenius (exit to Bold Penguin), and Chief Strategy Officer of SecondMarket (exit to Nasdaq).

Jeremy is co-host of the Beyond the Exchange podcast, has spoken at dozens of conferences across the country, and has appeared in many leading publications, including Forbes, Fortune, BusinessWeek, USAToday, and The Wall Street Journal. Jeremy has also been featured on CNBC, NPR, Fox Business News, and Bloomberg.

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the university system is broken

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beyond the exchange

higher ed must prepare you for work

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disrupt education

why college is a scam

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beyond the exchange

“workforce engineering”

colleges do liberal arts all wrong

the market is ready for pega6

full episodes

week in edtech

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the university model is dead

pega6’s continuous failure pedagogy

employers don’t care about accreditation

jeremy smith

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disrupt education

beyond the exchange

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signals in higher ed

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week in edtech

speaking topics

As an multi-exit entrepreneur who is creating higher ed for the AI Age, Jeremy is well versed in and has strong (sometimes controversial) opinions on all things future of learning and future of work. From where college has gone wrong to the broken talent pipeline to what higher ed needs to look like in the AI Age and more . . .

ai/artificial intelligence ai-first/ai-native alt ed ed tech entrepreneurship entry-level jobs future of learning future of work higher ed profession-based learning (pbl) scalability skills-first hiring startups talent pipeline venture capital work-based learning

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workforce engineering for the ai age

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pega6 is better than college

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signals in higher ed

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the network

disrupt education

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a one-year college alternative

disrupt education

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pega6, a better path than college

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disrupt education

higher ed’s tipping point

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disrupt education