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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 6)
Ray Martinez: The trend that we certainly want to see in higher education is the growth of options that will allow particularly non-traditional students in that category between 25 and 64 who are looking to go back to college and complete a degree to advance their careers further. That is a trend that we’ve probably not
Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 2)
Vishal Melwani: Within a year, we garnered around 180 clients that were some of the world’s top urban wear brands. We ended up selling to a large trading firm within the first year. We sold to a trading firm based in Hong Kong. I was 25 and I had an exit under my belt. I
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 5)
Sramana: What was it about MongoDBs database platform that was unique? You said that you believed for seven years that the world needed a new database. What did you see in MongoDB that made you believe it was the answer? Max Schireson: Fundamentally, I believed the world needed a new database that would do two
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You have two kinds of mentors – student and course mentors. Then, the curriculum material is coming from third party? Ray Martinez: Typically, that is the case for most of our degree programs. Sramana Mitra: What about completion rates? When we talk about MOOCs – self-managed online learning – there’s a distinct problem
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 4)
Sramana: When you were looking to join MarkLogic, what did you feel was the killer app opportunity for the company? Max Schireson: At the time that I joined, they had one customer who was a really good customer Elsevier, who was the world’s largest scientific, technical, and medical publisher. The idea was that the initial
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 4)
Ray Martinez: The second part of our faculty is what we call the course mentor. The course mentor is typically your subject matter expert. If I’m signed up in the College of Business for WGU Texas and I’m taking an Accounting 101 course, and if I stumble along the way in trying to learn the
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 3)
Sramana: Tell me a bit more about the founding of MarkLogic. What was going on and how did you get hooked up with those people? Max Schireson: The founders were Paul Pederson and Chris Lindblad. They had been search engine engineers and they realized that they could apply some of the technologies of search engines
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You have the national number and you have all these WGU state chapters? Ray Martinez: Exactly, we have our state-branded universities but they’re all a part of the national university, which again is Western Governors University. Here in Texas, our student population is close to 5,000. Majority of our students are enrolled in