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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

Edsurge

So you can look at Chegg, which we’re an investor in, which has a $5.5 We invested in Twitter when it was private; in Dropbox, Spotify, Lyft, you know, all-important companies that are in the education-talent space. We’re starting to see companies emerge that are becoming large. Of course, “large” is a relative term.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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