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How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Omar Hussain is the president and CEO of Imprivata. Before joining Imprivata, Omar was the founder and CEO of Anchorsilk, an e-commerce software company spun out of Compuware, where he was GM of its Windows Tools and Testing business. Serving in senior executive leadership roles, Omar
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 7)
After this conversation with Anant, I went and talked to Radhika Ghosal, the 15-year-old from New Delhi, who took the MIT Circuits and Electronics course. Sramana: Radhika, how did you find out about edX? Radhika Ghosal: I found out about edX back when it was called MITx. I read about MITx on Hack A Day
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 6)
Sramana: That is absolutely awesome. The state of engineering education in India, outside of IIT, is awful. Anant Agarwal: I really care about creating courses that have the same quality and rigor of on-campus courses. There is a misconceived notion that online courses cannot have the same quality of education. I disagree. We have proven
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 5)
Sramana: Have you heard of a company called Pluralsight? Pluralsight has a similar model. The company is doing about $16 million in revenue. They are a bootstrapped company out of Utah, and they have a crowd source content development model. They do royalty sharing between content creators and Pluralsight when consumer or corporations pay for
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 4)
Sramana: Isn’t there a possibility that a student could convince someone else to take a course for them and essentially defraud the system? Anant Agarwal: Absolutely. The certificates at this point are issued after signing an honor code. The certificates we issue are noted as honor code certificates. We have recently partnered with Pearson, which
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 3)
Sramana: So there is no MIT stamp of any kind on that San Jose State degree? Anant Agarwal: No, not for a blended class like the example I gave with San Jose State. They get a San Jose State degree. Now, if the student took the public MIT course at the same time on edX,
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 2)
Sramana: How does the model support the on-campus vision? If your courses are built by universities all over the world with an open source methodology, how do localized campuses leverage that information? Anant Agarwal: The platform is open source. The software is open source. The content is owned by the universities. They are the ones
“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Professor Anant Agarwal was my graduate advisor at MIT in the mid-nineties. In Anant, I found a kindred entrepreneurial spirit, someone who encouraged me to pursue my entrepreneurial dreams, even if that meant quitting the PhD program at MIT. Over the past 20 years, both of