Education Technology: Could it Be Different This Time?

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Umang Gupta:During my thirty-five years as a Silicon Valley software entrepreneur, I’ve seen multiple technology revolutions occur, many of which have given rise to dozens of mega companies from Microsoft and Oracle to Google and Facebook.
Education, however, has been a puzzle.
There has been no mega-breakout companies in the education technology space.
Neither has there been a transformation of education itself that has been as extensive and as far reaching as we have seen in the rest of our economy.
I’ve devoted the past year to investing in, and participating as an advisor to, young startups in this space.
And most recently, I've asked myself two fundamental questions: What is unique about the education industry that has in the past made it so resistant to the impact of technology?
And is this state of affairs likely to persist–or is it going to be different this time?
I believe the answer will be different this time– but it involves changes from three parties: from the entrepreneurs selling products, the schools that buy them, and the investors who support the startups in this space.

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