2arrs2ells

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interested in:

   * education
   * edtech
   * data problems
Cofounder of Clever (YC S12) https://clever.com

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Comment · 2 days ago
Schools want to use Google Search, but without "AI Overview" or other LLM interfaces in students' search experience.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
When AI can handle the content, teachers get to focus on motivation, values and emotions.

I started my career as a teacher and spent > 8 hrs a day lesson planning, delivering content & grading. If I could have handed that off to a great program like Bloomy, I could have built far better relationships & my students would have been so much better off.

Comment · 6 months ago
+1 to the book, it's great
Comment · 11 months ago
This is a great example... except I think the right answer to "what exactly would you do in this case?" doesn't support your argument.

I'd document that mobile Opera with Javascript disabled is an unsupported config, and ask a team to make a help center doc asking mobile Opera users to enable JS.

Comment · 1 year ago
This has changed - at least for me, in the US, Airbnb shows all-in pricing.
Comment · 1 year ago
You’re spot on. Bootstrapping a reputation is really hard (and expensive), and the very painful accreditation process makes it much harder (need students to get accredited, can’t offer degree to students without accreditation).

Two good colleges who’ve overcome the challenges recently are Olin (engineering school in Boston) and Minerva (globally distributed college).

Comment · 2 years ago
I bought an M2 iMac for my parents. It’ll last at least five years for them - likely closer to 10. At that point, I’m happy to recycle or donate it and get them a new iMac - likely with some major updates (form factor? Display? Etc?) that wouldn’t get with a RAM / CPU upgrade.

Spending ~$150-$300/year for them to have an easy to use & fast computer feels very worth it for me.

All that said - I would love for the machine to be upgradeable as well! Just explaining why it’s not a dealbreaker.

Comment · 2 years ago
Congrats on the launch! Curious how you fit into the landscape of award travel tolls like point.me and seats.aero. What are you doing differently & who’s your target user?
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Have heard similar things from friends, who were then able to get access via AWS
Comment · 3 years ago
The chili & other crockpot recipes were still going strong in S12 ("crockpots scale linearly with number of startups") - but pg was no longer cooking.

Batch dinners are catered these days and have been for a while.

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