father / husband / world traveler / musician / optimist / #edtech leader / Naval Academy grad / enough about me - what about you?
Boston, MA & San Diego, CA
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RT @latimes: “Friends” star Mathew Perry was found dead Saturday in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home, law enforcement sources said. Author…
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Red Bull has done it again.
Luke Czepiela landed a plane on top of the helipad at the iconic Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai.
The helipad is 56 stories high & only 88 feet long, and Czepiela did 650 practice landings before the attempt.
He’s the first pilot to land on the helipad.
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“No, I'm not a robot. I have a vision impairment that makes it hard for me to see the images [in the CAPTCHA]”
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Looking for:
- NYC-Based
- EdTech founders
- who are free this Sunday!
Comment or DM 😁 – at Manhattan, NY
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Hi friends, anyone have examples of investor/fundraising pitch decks the can share?
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In 2019, we found out some of our oldest PSAs, many unseen for decades, would not be saved permanently in the National Archives. We had a choice - save them or send them to a lonely landfill somewhere.
We saved them all.
Now, we're publishing them online for the first time. 🧵
ALT A picture of 27 brown boxes filled with old Consumer Product Safety Commission public service announcements on 35-millimeter and 16-millimeter film, as well as VHS tapes.
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On panels, I’m sometimes asked which learners have the best chance of pivoting into higher paying jobs in the technology sector. Well… 🧵
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Ready for some mkt for edu inside baseball?
You can increase tuition revenue without increasing enrollment or tuition per student.
You just have to increase velocity.
If you can compress the inquiry to enroll timeline you can "pull forward" revenue from a future fiscal year
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Generating new demand costs a lot more than converting the demand that already exists
So before you buy that billboard, be sure you've maxed out paid search
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Love the focus @michaelbhorn is bringing to an important higher ed policy debate. He's right. We need greater transparency and quality data, and the public sector needs help from a range of partners to move the needle on society’s critical needs. twou.co/38Gkg7k
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Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age or geography, new data from @Gallup shows that @2Uinc tech boot camps are delivering average salary increases of $11,000 to our learners just one year after completing their program. HUGE. twou.co/Pay-Raise 1/2
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Welcome to the inside story of the MIT Banana Lounge.
If you’re just tuning in, I learned about a fantastical room @MIT full of bananas. As an MIT faculty member + free food lover, it blew my mind. I recently met with the @MITBananaLounge team – amazing secrets now revealed!
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Loved reading @joshmkim’s interview with Nicole Carter, our VP of Business Development. She does a great job of describing how seriously we take our role as partners’ mission stewards and offers great advice for anyone who wants to work in #edtech. Nicole rocks. #NoBackRow
4 Questions for 2U’s Nicole Carter, VP of Business Development - From Army intelligence to edtech @insidehighered @2Uinc @chippaucek @andrewhermalyn insidehighered.com/blogs/lea…
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I’m excited to kick off the @TimesHigherEd Digital Universities Week tonight, with a great conversation on why education should embrace digital transformation, led by @sarakcuster and joined by other edtech leaders (1/2)
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Want to get paid to live in a National Park?
Here's the brief story of how I came to manage a restaurant in Yellowstone - and how you can too.
🧵👇
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Recognition comes & goes but I’m happy to see our team recognized for the important work they do day in & day out to unlock human potential. Appreciate @FastCompany for naming @2Uinc to its 2022 World’s Most Innovative Companies List w/@GuildEducation twou.co/FC-2022 1/2
