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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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Since 2004 it has created more than 1,100 clips that have amassed an estimated 50 million views. Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public. But it almost didn’t happen.

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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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In recent memory, we launched Blackboard in 1997 and took the company public seven years later in 2004. Chegg was founded in 2005 and went public eight years later in 2013. When we do, the same dynamics that make the education market tough to scale make success so defensible and loyal.