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2U bankrupt 3 yrs after buying edX from Harvard, MIT for $800M
- Kon-Peki 2y agoDiscussion of the original announcement of the deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674413 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674413
- downrightmike 2y ago"edX — which continues to offer free, on-demand courses taught by faculty members at Harvard" I like the idea, but I can't fathom how a company could reasonably assume they could do this as schools aren't meant to be profitable, they're meant to educate which is why they are generally in the public realm.