GSV Ventures: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the GSV Ventures Podcast, where we will be discussing the age of digital learning that has been kickstarted by the 1.6B learners forced online by the Coronavirus pandemic. As the world transitions from B.C. (Before Coronavirus) to A.D. (After Disease), an enormous catalyst has accelerated the opportunity of the future to today. Join industry leaders, educators, government officials, entrepreneurs, and investors as we explore the A.D. world.
Moderator:
Carlos Watson, Co-Founder & CEO, OZY
Panelists:
Arne Duncan, Managing Partner, Emerson Collective; former U.S. Secretary of Education
Chip Paucek, Co-Founder & CEO, 2U, Inc.
Penny Pritzker, Founder & Chair, PSP Partners; Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Carol Quillen, President, Davidson College
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2U and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Moderator:
Jeff Livingston, CEO, EdSolutions; Co-Founder, Center for Education Market Dynamics
Panelists:
Brandon Anderson, Founder & CEO, Raheem.ai; 2019 TED Fellow
Anurima Bhargava, President, Anthem of Us; Former Chief, Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice; Former Director of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Senior Advisor, Whiteboard Advisors.
Sharhonda Bossier, Deputy Director, Education Leaders of Color
Ashley Munson, Legislative Affairs Manager, Illinois Network of Charter Schools; Chicago community organizer & activist
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and Strada Education Network. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Fireside Chat with Chris Hoehn-Saric, Chairmain of the Shorelight Board of Directors, Co-Founded Sterling Partners & Co-Chair of the Investment Committee, with Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, American Student Assistance, Pearson, and Microsoft. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Moderator: Zoe Baird, CEO & President, Markle Foundation
Panelists:
Chike Aguh, DigitalUS Coalition & Senior Principal, Future of Work Lead at McChrystal Group
Brian Napack, President & CEO, Wiley
Angela Siefer, Executive Director, National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Andy Trainor, VP of US Learning, Walmart
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Walton Family Foundation, THe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and ECMC. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade Public Schools, with Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner, GSV Ventures
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Microsoft, Walton Family Foundation, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Joe Lonsdale, General Partner, 8VC; Founder, Palantir, Addepar, Open Gov; Board Member, Strive for College; and Member, Forbes Midas List, with Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Google Cloud, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Moderator:
Deborah Quazzo, Managing Partner, GSV Ventures
Panelists:
Anant Agarwal, Founder & CEO, EdX
Matt Glotzbach, CEO, Quizlet
David Levin, University Entrepreneur in Residence, Arizona State University; Chairman, SparkBeyond
Kate Eberle Walker, CEO, PresenceLearning
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, Amazon Web Services, Google, and Sanford Program at National University. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Moderator:
Julia Stiglitz, Partner, GSV Ventures
Panelists:
Andrew Grauer, Co-Founder & CEO, CourseHero
Judy Olian, President, Quinnipiac University
Chip Paucek, Co-Founder & CEO, 2U
Mike Silagadze, Founder & CEO, Top Hat
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Strada Education Network, 2U, and American Student Assistance. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Moderator:
Henry Hipps, Deputy Director K-12 Education, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Panelists:
Howard Fuller, Founder & Director, Institute for the Transformation of Learning; Co-Founder, The Malcolm X Liberation University; Civil Rights Activist
* ASU GSV 2015 Lifetime Achievement Honoree *
Dr. Mahalia Ann Hines, President, Common Ground Foundation; Chicago Public Schools Board of Education
* ASU GSV 2020 Lifetime Achievement Honoree *
Phyllis Lockett, CEO, LEAP Innovations
* ASU GSV 2018 Innovator of Color *
Michael Sorrell, President, Paul Quinn College
* ASU GSV 2019 Innovator of Color *
Thank you to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a founding partner of the Innovator of Color Award, and to Russell Reynolds Associates for its continued support of the IOC award at the ASU GSV Summit.
Dick Kramlich, Legendary Venture Capitalist & First Venture Backer of Apple; Chairman Emeritus & Co-Founder, New Enterprise Associates; Co-Founder & Co-Managing Director, Green Bay Ventures, with Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners,New Oriental Education and Technology Group, Chegg, and ECMC. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Ben Wallerstein, CEO, Whiteboard Advisors
Our guests today include:
Lauren Maddox, Senior Policy Advisor, Holland & Knight
Tony Miller, Former Deputy Secretary of Education; Board of Directors — ACT, Apollo Education Group, Criteria Corp, GoGuardian
Scott Pulsipher, President, Western Governors University; Member, American Workforce Policy Advisory Board
Liz Simon, Co-Chief Operating Officer, General Assembly.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including American Student Assistance, Sanford Program at National University, and ETS. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Julia Stiglitz, Partner, GSV Ventures
Our guests today include:
Dick George, Chairman, President & CEO, Ascendium Education Group, Inc.
Bill Hansen, President & CEO, Strada Education Network
Jamie Merisotis, President & CEO, Lumina Foundation
Jeremy Wheaton, President & CEO, ECMC Group
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Strada Education Network, ECMC Group, and Walton Family Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, Founder, GSV, and our guest today is Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including
2U, Google, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Deborah Quazzo, Partner, GSV Ventures, and our guest today is Jeb Bush, Former Governor of Florida & Chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including
American Student Assistance, Pearson, and New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
Our guests today include:
Steven Butschi, Head of Education, Google Cloud, Google
Michael King, Vice President & General Manager, Global Education Industry, IBM
Andrew Ko, Global Director for Education & Workforce, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jessica Lindl, Vice President Global Education, Unity Technologies
Anthony Salcito, Interim Vice President Public Sector & Government, Vice President Education, Microsoft
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Join Deborah Quazzo, Partner, GSV Ventures, and her guest, Nitin Nohria, Dean of Harvard Business School.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Google Cloud, Kaplan, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
Our guests today include:
Ellie Bertani, Senior Director, Learning & Reskilling, Walmart US
David Blake, CEO, Learnin, Founder, Degreed
Leighanne Levensaler, Chief Marketing Officer & EVP of Corporate Strategy, Workday
Rachel Romer Carlson, Co-Founder & CEO, Guild Education
Rick Shangraw, Managing Director, HighRize; Member, Board of Directors, InStride
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Microsoft, Strada Education Network, and Sanford Program at National University. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
Our guests today include:
Sara Allan, Deputy Director, U.S. Program, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
John Katzman, CEO & Founder, Noodle Partners
Dan Rosensweig, CEO, Chegg, Inc.
Mitchell Stevens, Faculty Chair, Education Enterprise, Stanford Graduate School of Education.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Chegg, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, Founder, GSV
Our guests today include:
Mercedes Bent, Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ryan Craig, Co-Founder & Managing Director, University Ventures
Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, Managing Director, LEGO Ventures
Rob Hutter, Founder & Managing Partner, Learn Capital
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including ECMC Group, Strada Education Network, Walton Family Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by: Bill Sahlman, Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard Business School; Author, New Business Ventures And The Entrepreneur; Advisor, GSV Ventures
Our guests today include:
Catharine (Cappy) Hill, Managing Director, Ithaka S+R; Former President, Vassar College; Senior Fellow, Yale University Board
Rick Levin, Senior Advisor, Coursera; Former President, Yale University
Carol Quillen, President, Davidson College
Michael Sorrell, President, Paul Quinn College
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including American Student Assistance, 2U, and ETS. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Tom Vander Ark, CEO & Partner, Getting Smart, Author, “Smart Parents” plus others
Our guests today include:
Dan Carroll, Co-Founder & CPO, Clever
Amanda DoAmaral, Founder & CEO, Fiveable
Adrian Graham, Co-Founder & CEO, Seesaw Learning
Brian Grey, CEO, Remind
Max Tuchman, Co-Founder & CEO, Caribu
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Amazon Web Services, Pearson, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Isabelle Hau, Partner, Imaginable Futures
Our guests today include:
Marquita Davis, Deputy Director of Early Learning, Gates Foundation
Walter Gilliam, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University
Myra Jones Taylor, Chief Policy Officer, Zero to Three
John King, President/CEO, Ed Trust, 10th U.S. Secretary of Education
Tommy Sheridan, Deputy Director, National Head Start Association
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Walton Family Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Have you been riding a rollercoaster of emotions lately? You aren’t alone. There are strategies that can help make the ride a little smoother. Join Dr. Marc Brackett, Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of the recent book, "Permission To Feel." Dr. Brackett will present on the 7 steps for healthy emotion regulation at home and work to support well-being and better decision making, relationship quality, and performance during these uncertain times.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Sanford Program at National University, ECMC Group, and American Student Assistance. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Rob Hutter, Founder & Managing Partner, Learn Capital
Our guests today include:
Ulrik Christensen, CEO, Area9
Emily Glassberg Sands, Head of Data Science, Coursera
Mike Olsen, Co-Founder & CEO, Proctorio
Damir Sabol, Co-Founder, Photomath
Valerie Schreiner, Chief Product & Marketing Officer, Turnitin
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Amazon Web Services, Google, and Walton Family Foundation. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Phyllis Lockett, CEO, LEAP Innovations
Our guests today include:
Susan Enfield, Superintendent, Highline Public Schools
Scott Frauenheim, CEO, Distinctive Schools
Marie Izquierdo, Chief Academic Officer, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
David Miyashiro, Superintendent, Cajon Valley Union School District
Tom Rooney, Superintendent, Lindsay Unified School District
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Chegg, ETS and Google Cloud. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Levine, SVP, Nickelodeon.
Our guests today include:
Jeanette Betancourt, SVP US Social Impact, Sesame Street
Linda Burch, Co-Founder, Chief Education & Strategy Officer, Common Sense Media
Brian Fitzgerald, CEO & Co-Founder, Tinkergarten
Caroline Hu Flexer, CEO, Khan Academy Kids, Founder, Duck Duck Moose
Sara Mauskopf, CEO & Co-Founder, Winnie
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Microsoft, Kaplan, and Google. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Bridget Burns, Executive Director, University Innovation Alliance.
Our guests today include:
Marni Baker Stein, Provost & Chief Academic Officer, Western Governors University
Arne Duncan, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Sal Khan, Founder & CEO, Khan Academy
Paul LeBlanc, President, Southern New Hampshire University
Ted Mitchell, President, American Council on Education
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Strada Education Network, Kaplan, and Chegg. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
This episode is hosted by Michael Moe, founder of GSV. Our guests today include Eric Yuan, CEO, Zoom - Rachel Carlson, CEO & Co-Founder, Guild Education.
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Strata Education Network, the Walton Family Foundation, American Student Assistance, Pearson, and New Oriental Education & Technology Group. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
A key component in this A.D. world will be “Weapons of Mass Instruction”, the use of transformational technologies applied to learning to rapidly scale companies, enabling network effects and exponential growth that was previously unimaginable.
This episode, “Weapons of Mass Instruction,” is hosted by Michael Horn, Chief Strategy Officer of the Entangled Group, and Co-Founder and a Distinguished Fellow of The Christensen Institute.
Our guests today include
Sam Chaudhary, Co-Founder & CEO of ClassDojoJoy Chen, Chief Investment Officer of TAL Education GroupJeff Maggioncalda, CEO of CourseraJosh Scott, President of Guild EducationLuis von Ahn, Co-Founder and CEO of Duolingo
The ASU GSV Summit wishes to thank our sponsor partners, including 2U, New Oriental Education and Technology Group, and Pearson. Please visit www.asugsvsummit.com for more information.
Matt takes us through his 20+ year career beginning with starting BabyCenter in 1996 and why early childhood is so exciting from social impact, technological, and investing perspectives. With BabyCenter still widely used today, reaching 100M parents monthly with 8 out of 10 new mothers as online users, Matt shares his key entrepreneurial lessons learned and why he believes the company has stood the test of time. Having recently returned back to early childhood post other business ventures, Matt explains his main incentives for starting Promise Venture Studio, which catalyzes and accelerates entrepreneurial ventures driving impact at scale for children 0-5 in the U.S. and the evolution he has seen in the industry. Lastly, given the recent influx of high-profile investments made in early childhood, Matt discusses why the time is now for the industry and identifies areas of innovation in this market he’s most excited about.
Fireside Chat from the GSV Leaders Summit with Joseph Aoun, President, Northeastern University and Julia Stiglitz, Partner, GSV AcceleraTE.
Fireside chat from GSV Leaders Summit with Rick Levin, Former President, Yale University and former CEO of Coursera and Michael Moe, Founder GSV.
Julia Stiglitz hosts Rebecca Taber, the CEO and cofounder of Merit America, to discuss their work enabling scaled education-to-employment pathways. Merit America is building a new talent stream from low-skill to upwardly mobile careers through targeted education, coaching, and mentorship to fill employers' high demand roles.
In this episode, Chief People Officer of UiPath, Marius Istrate joins GSV AcceleraTE Fund Managing Partner, Deborah Quazzo. UiPath is the global leader in robotic process automation AND the fastest growing enterprise software company in history. UiPath has grown from 100 employees in 3 countries under two years ago to 2,400 employees in 30 countries today AND, most importantly, UiPath was recently acknowledged as the NUMBER 1 rated Unicorn in the world for culture as measured by Comparably. Deborah asks Marius how an organization growing this quickly receives ratings from employees of 97 on “happiness” and 92 and above on gender and diversity. You’ll hear that it’s all about being able to bring your authentic self to work, employee empowerment and perversely the benefits of starting the business in a small, formerly Communist country, where gender equity and valuing diversity come naturally. Don’t miss this fabulous interview and see Marius on StageX at ASU GSV in April!
Julia Stiglitz speaks with Ashu Desai, the cofounder of Make School, a product-focused, accredited program that is providing a bachelor’s degree in computer science and challenging the status quo in higher education. You can also see Ashu at the upcoming ASU GSV summit in San Diego April 8th through the 10th .
This month, Babbel CEO Markus Witte joined GSV AcceleraTE Founder and Managing Partner Deborah Quazzo to discuss his entrepreneurial Journey, Babbel’s strong performance in the US market led by Julie Hansen, his views of emerging technologies, and the secrets to the global success of Babbel.
Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda joins GSV partner Julia Stiglitz for a discussion on MOOCs, online degrees, and a look under the hood at Coursera as they push the limits of digitally delivered education. Jeff shares details about his journey to Coursera, his vision for the future of education, and reflections on product market fit.