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Congratulations on your success. However, I think you should finish your degree. Online flash cards are not the Future of the World.
by mwytock 16y ago
Congratulations on your success. However, I think you should finish your degree. Online flash cards are not the Future of the World.
- catechu 16y agoI speak for myself here, but I don't think something needs to be the "Future of the World" for it to be an immensely fulfilling way to lead one's life, degree or not.
- meterplech 16y agoYou shouldn't be so quick to knock the idea. People probably said the same thing about a stupid website that was pretty much a yearbook online. It has 3milliom monthly users, he can definitely turn it into a revenue generator and is in a great position to be strategically acquired by Washington Post (which owns Kaplan), or Princeton Review. Dropping out of MIT is a risk- but, he can always return.
- vecter 16y agoArash Ferdowsi left MIT as a junior to cofound Dropbox w/Drew Houston. Turned our pretty well it seems :)
- burgerbrain 16y agoSuccess stories are cheap to rattle off. We don't hear about the countless failures though, precisely because they were failures.
- qq66 16y agoBut Quizlet already has tons of traction. It's not some shot in the dark.
- jcampbell1 16y agoHaving a website that 20% of teachers nationwide use is a pretty powerful place to build a business from. Quia started from the same place, and now does something like $40M/year in revenue with their IXL product.