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Education is not a commodity.
It’s a very delicate and fragile process.
You can scale marketing, sales, but you can’t scale real learning of anything more complicated than hammering nails.
However big is EdTech it will always be a fragmented carpet made of small (and some big) patches.
Think of Harvard or any university you consider the best - why didn’t it conquer the world by opening offices all over the world?
The same reason why there will never be a Google of EdTech.
Learning is not a hamburger.
Internet doesn’t change the nature of education, it is just a distribution channel, one of many possible.
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Education is not a commodity.
It’s a very delicate and fragile process.
You can scale marketing, sales, but you can’t scale real learning of anything more complicated than hammering nails.
However big is EdTech it will always be a fragmented carpet made of small (and some big) patches.
Think of Harvard or any university you consider the best - why didn’t it conquer the world by opening offices all over the world?
The same reason why there will never be a Google of EdTech.
Learning is not a hamburger.
Internet doesn’t change the nature of education, it is just a distribution channel, one of many possible.