Jennifer Carolan (Reach Capital) - Seeking the Full Potential of Education [ETL Looks Back]

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jennifer Carolan is Co-Founder and Partner at Reach Capital. In 2014, while with the NewSchools Venture Fund, Carolan spoke with Steve Blank about the emergence of EdTech products – before technology was widely used in classrooms and many students had access to their own devices. Pulling from her experience as a science teacher, Carolan shared insights on how we can incorporate the venture model and mindset into education. Her future forward thinking emphasized the importance of involving the teachers who are leading the EdTech revolution.

This episode was originally published on November 5, 2014.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought to you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.0	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eCORner.
0:15.0	.
0:17.0	So it is my pleasure to welcome Jennifer Carolyn to ETL today.
0:21.6	An experienced teacher and education researcher, Jennifer now serves as managing director of the New School Seed Fund,
0:27.6	which she co-founded to make investments in early-stage ed tech companies with a potential for a big impact in K-12 education.
0:35.6	To lead us in exploring Jennifer's insights in this area and to discuss maybe what it means
0:39.6	to be part of a non-profit venture philanthropy fund, I'm also privileged to welcome
0:44.1	serial entrepreneur and our own Stanford Engineering Consulting Associate Professor, Steve
0:48.5	Blank.
0:49.0	Please help me welcome Jennifer and Steve up for ETL.
0:53.2	Hey, Jennifer.
0:58.0	Hey, Steve.
1:00.0	How are you?
1:01.0	Good.
1:02.0	Great.
1:03.0	Honor to be here.
1:04.0	So Jennifer, we met a long time ago, and I thought maybe we'd start by you maybe telling everybody, how high were we when we met?
1:19.0	And some of you were going, what kind of question is that?
1:22.8	Do you remember how high we were?
1:25.1	We were at 11,000 feet.
1:27.1	We were at 11,000 feet. We were at 11,000 feet.
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