There have been many startups that have been just this. They all have died except for a very few. Most of my edtech founder friends were motivated to serve and

There have been many startups that have been just this. They all have died except for a very few. Most of my edtech founder friends were motivated to serve and transform education because it didn’t work for them and they realized it didn’t work for most students. Codeacademy is a good example of a successful one. Companies that succeeded, in some cases enabling inner city school children to perform on at a college level, died. CiteLighter is a good example. There have been countless ones in math. The reason the bad edtech products win is because they are built to survive the incredibly disjointed buying groups who all have, explicitly, their own agendas when it comes to anything in the classroom. If students & teachers could decide where their classroom’s tech budget went, there would be a revolution in education in half a generation. But they are dead last on the list today.