Our guest today is John Danner. John is an investor in Edtech and the Future of Work. During the last 3 years he has participated in investments that have impacted many learner lives, like Lambda School or Outschool. Before being an investor, John started Netgravity, an internet advertising firm that went public and was sold to Doubleclick now Google. Then he did a U-turn and became a teacher in a school district. After that, he built a school and started Rocketship Education, a charter school network that now has 13K students in 23 schools across. Finally he went on to start Zeal, an online real-time support math tutoring company which he later sold and became an investor.

In this episode, John and I think about trends in K-12 innovation, discuss the benefits of cohort-based courses in a K-12 environment versus adult education, dig into what really is core learning and what is not, dream about different learning experiences that could and should exist, distill what first principles you need to build a school today.

Listen and take note of how one of edtech's more respected investors today thinks about the future of education.

Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion:

• Lambda School - https://lambdaschool.com
• Outschool - https://outschool.com
• Rocketship Education - https://www.rocketshipschools.org
• Maven - https://maven.com
• Prenda School - https://www.prenda.com
• GalileoXP - https://galileoxp.com
• Synthesis School - https://www.synthesis.is
• Ender - https://joinender.com
• Songbird - https://www.songbirdeducation.com
• Building a Second Brain - https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com
• Write of Passage - https://perell.com/write-of-passage/
• John Danner on Venture Stories - https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/village-globals-venture-storie-591423/episodes/the-past-present-and-future-of-59632693
• John Danner on the Future of Learning and Work Podcast - https://anchor.fm/flw/episodes/1-John-Danner---EdTech-Investing--Trends--Opportunities-ep6k91

Where to learn more about John:

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jwdanner
• Dunce Deals - https://dunce.substack.com/people/3039585-john-danner
• Blog - https://johnwdanner.medium.com

Where to learn more about Enrollhand: 

• Website - www.enrollhand.com
• Webinar - https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com