Keith Schacht

Founder & CEO, The Explanation Company · 1 appearance on the record.

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Keith Schacht is the co-founder and former CEO of Mystery Science, an elementary science education platform acquired by Discovery Education. He previously worked as a product manager at Facebook and is currently the founder and CEO of The Explanation Company.

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Everything Keith Schacht said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Schacht: Parent educational product spending collapses during elementary and middle school

“Once you send your kid off to school full-time, parents remain involved in some respects. I think reading is one of the main ones. They still think, feel like it's their job to make sure they're reading regularly to their child and helping to reinforce, you kn…”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 8:32 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Opinion

Schacht: Teaching science primarily to fill STEM job shortages is mistaken

“I think it is an absolute mistake to say that we should teach children more science because there's a lot of STEM careers out there that, that, that need to be filled. Like, that's absolutely the mistaken approach.”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 35:08 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Insight

Schacht: Children cannot be taught anything they do not want to understand

“When you understand that a child's motivation is central to learning, you, I mean, one of our internal principles, you can't teach a child something that they don't care to understand. Like, if they don't want to understand it, no amount of trying to shove it …”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 31:02 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Insight

Schacht: The science of learning is in its infancy like genetic engineering

“When you think of yourself as a learning company, learning is a field that's in its infancy right now. And it's deceptive because it's an old industry. So it feels like, well, we figured all this out and, you know, that's just like, I don't know, some efficien…”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 48:11 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Insight

Schacht: Edtech technology adoption lags enterprise software by ten years

“In the school space, I think that's one of the most significant things is it's, from my perspective, it seems like it is mirroring the enterprise cycle lagging about 10 years or so.”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 15:13 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Opinion

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.”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 17:32 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Schacht: Best learning business opportunities will be outside existing stack

“So most likely the business opportunities in the learning space will be outside of the existing stack.”

Keith Schacht Apr 6, 2018 ▶ 51:14 Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator	Apr 6, 2018	18m

Keith Schacht

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