Joe Liemandt

Shane Parrish: Why does education seem fundamentally broken today when it didn’t 30 years ago? 

Joe Liemandt: The biggest picture, I think, if you talk to parents about why there’s agitation for change, is that this AI world is coming and we’re all terrified of what it means. We don’t know exactly what it means, but what we do know is that the education system that we all went through isn’t going to prepare the kids for that world. And I feel that as a catalyst for people to say the old system wasn’t working or the old system needs to change. That’s just a huge driver. I talk to lots of kindergarten parents and they’re just looking and saying, “In a dozen years, if I put my kid in standard school that I went through, is that going to prepare them for this AI world?” And they’re like, “No, it’s not.” So there’s a drive that we need something different.