Essays
Schoolze
The Genesis of Permissionless Academy: 21st Century Skills to Financial Independence
The realization that quietly rewired my understanding of education, work, and leverage.
In 2016, I founded Schoolze with the aim to revolutionize the way schools engage with parents and raise funds. As we grew, it became evident that the education system was stuck in a time warp. Despite technological advances, the curriculum remained largely unchanged. This realiza...more
Better Ed-Tech Tools Don’t Make Better Schools
Technology doesn't change systems; the rules of the game do. Here is why the "immune system" of education absorbs every innovation.
Most people believe that if you give a school better tools, you get a better school. We often hope that a new app or a better curriculum will be the key to helping children learn more. But after building tools for hundreds of schools over the last three years, I have found a mism...more
K-12 School Success, 7 things we learned started Schoolze
A deep dive into how Schoolze's current mission evolved over past 4 years!
Why am I writing this? Few months ago, I wrote about how a product demo to a group of international customers transformed Schoolze’s mission into a K-12 School Success Platform . Since then, I’ve been sleeping, eating, drinking, and dreaming about one question: What actually make...more
The demo that transformed Schoolze’s mission
How I presented a Schoolze demo to a chain of preschools - a dream come true opportunity and a not so dreamy outcome.
A while back, I got invited to demo Schoolze to an international chain of preschools. One of those rare moments that, at the time, just feels exciting, but later you realize it quietly changed everything (even thought it didn't have a happy outcome back then). April 2016 The asso...more