Jose Ferreira
Jose Ferreira
Jose Ferreirais an American entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Knewton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryUnited States of America
derivative venture
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.
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Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
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Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
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If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.
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Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
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Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global problem that we face as a species. But there's a flip-side: if we can fix education, then we'll dramatically improve the other problems, too.
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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.
bay best kid
The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second.
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I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun.
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I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system.
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What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.
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Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
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Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.
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I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people trying to bring innovation into for-profit education.