Pearson
company on 10 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 19 times in 14 episodes since 2014
the Neon Show 4 
Top Founders 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
the Pitch 1 
American Optimist 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
TBPN 1 
20VC 1
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Latta: Education's core problem is that institutions never build for students
“I think the biggest problem in education is very simple. It's that when you look at all the different players that make up education for young people, when you look at Pearson, when you look at schools, when you look at school administrators, when you look at …”
Schacht: Legacy publishers sell top-down while new edtech sells bottom-up
“We've got the Pearson, McGraw, Houghton Mifflin, that generation of companies who still assume they're going to sell top down and roll out, and then Mystery Science and other tech companies that, that just do the a la carte and roll it up.”
Morgan James Publishing Lets Authors Retain Full Intellectual Property
“I ended up going with Morgan James because they're an entrepreneurial publisher. It's very, very different than going with a much bigger publisher like a Penguin or a Pearson. Because you are going to own your own content, and that was a really big deal to me.…”
St. Charles: Knewton is deployed in both higher education and K-12
“We're deployed in Higher education institutions power a lot of Pearson publisher books which are, and a lot of higher ed. Also we actually just launched a product with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which has K-twelve. So we're actually in both now.”