jeremy smith bio — pega6 career accelerators, a university alternative

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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featured blog posts

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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.

What Higher Ed for the AI Age Looks Like

What would higher ed look like if someone built it for the AI Age? It would look like pega6. Duh.

Cometh the Product Builder

Want to know what this new-fangled Product Builder role is all about?! Well, just deposit $0.50 into your USB-C port to learn more!

Cometh the Pegasus

Our graduates aren’t entry-level. Each one is a pegasus.

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the university system is broken

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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