EP 191 - Henry Motte-Muñoz - Founder at Edukasyon - Come Back With Ideas, Not With Ideals

The Asia Tech Podcast welcomed Henry Motte-Muñoz, the Founder of Edukasyon, to the show.  Edukasyon is the go-to, online youth platform for making better-informed education, career, and life decisions.

Some of the topics that Henry and I discussed:

• Growing up between Europe and the Philippines
• Listening to impact, courage, and 'giving back' conversations around the dinner table
• Working at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital
• Getting a scholarship to attend Harvard Business School
• The benefits of Boston being a multi-campus city
• Always wanting to go back to the Philippines and build something with impact, at scale, using technology
• Education is the largest government expenditure in the Philippines
• The Philippines PISA ranking
• Moving from large, macro investments to real systemic changes
• The importance of basic, foundational academic skills, making the right education choices, and soft skills
• Scaling content in a way that is accessible
• Working with partners like AWS EdStart

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. Everyone Was Giving Back In Some Form Or Another
2. It Took Me a Solid Decade to Figure Out What To Do
3. All Countries Go Through Stages
4. What Are You Really Trying to Teach?
5. Education Is a Multi-Stakeholder Industry
6. What’s Your Vision for an Educated Child?
7. How Does This All Feed Into a Career?
8. It’s Not About Catching Up, It’s About Getting Ahead
9. Our Role as Humans Is Not Just to Be a Production Unit for Some Company