The One Percent Project- Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Resilience Episode 22: Deborah Quazzo- Investing in Exceptional EdTech Entrepreneurs.
About Deborah Quazzo:
My next guest on The One Percent Project is the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures and the Co-founder of ASU Summit, the incredible Deborah Quazzo. Coursera, Course Hero, Guild Education are among a few Edtech unicorn outliers that GSV has invested in over the years and Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush are among the few superstars whom she has hosted over the 11 years of the summit.
In this conversation she talks about:
- Her career: How she got into Venture Capital, after having worked for the likes of JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch and why EdTech
- The 5P framework to analysis and valid businesses and ideas. How businesses with Purpose the fifth P, will have a higher outcome.
- Why is the Asian EdTech market attractive, especially India and Indonesia?
- How companies are utilising EdTech platforms for upscaling their employees?
- The impact of Covid on primary, secondary and tertiary education?
- How the GSV team grooms its portfolio of companies?
- The key difference between the US and the Asian ecosystem
- Her learning from organising the ASU EdTech Summit and hosting guests such as Bill Gates, Barack Obama, George Bush, Byju and many other superstars
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