Episode 18: Making education technology suck less with Edmodo’s CEO Vibhu Mittal

Vibhu Mittal has worn many hats in a remarkable career — CMU professor, Google scientist, education entrepreneur, and now CEO of EdModo, the world’s largest education platform for schools across 370K schools, 65MM students and 6MM registered teachers. In episode 18, Mike and I spoke with Vibhu in a wide ranging chat about education and technology including:

• edtech market playbooks and similarities to the iPhone enterprise model
• Edmodo versus traditional Learning Management Systems,
• getting distribution via Apple and making money in K-12,
• piggybacking the Facebook model to remove the learning curve,
• experiments in the Cupertino school district and Japan,
• teacher-to-teacher chats to make Shakespeare relevant via Lady Gaga
• virtual classrooms of the future and the rise of student talent anywhere