Why There’s Never Been a Better Time to Build an L&D Company My Lightbulb Moment In the winter of 2010, as a 23 year old relatively new grad working at YouTube, I was asked to compile a list of the most popular channels by category for a year-end wrap up. …

How technology will impact work, and how employers should respond Executive Summary The impact of AI is misunderstood — AI will primarily automate tasks, not eliminate entire jobs Given this, there will be enormous corporate demand for upskilling, not reskilling Employers are the new educators — they need to help…

After many years working on educational innovation at Google, YouTube and Minerva, last February I launched Strive Talent to help people from less privileged educational and socioeconomic backgrounds find family-supporting, middle-class careers based on their skills and potential rather than credentials and pedigree. Today I am excited to share that…

When I was in high school in the early 2000s, Arianna Huffington spoke at an assembly at my small high school in Oakland. …

A syllabus for understanding the past, present and future of higher ed — Eighteen months ago I quit a dream job at Google to join Minerva, an ambitious organization rethinking higher education from scratch (learn more). …

A guide to saving seconds and minutes that add up — This past year I’ve onboarded a dozen people to partnerships/ sales/ marketing teams, first at Google and now at Minerva. When the company 101, team vision/ strategy/ tactics, and role definition conversations are done, I crank the intensity and passion to 11 for the final session: productivity tools. We spend…

 The best books, blogs and more from four years studying marketing at Google — “I want you to run a direct marketing campaign reaching five million small businesses across emerging markets — you pick the countries. You’ll have a budget of $XM dollars and the campaign needs to have at least a 5x ROI. …