In this episode: Frank is talking to Nick Hernandez who is the CEO and Founder of 360Learning, an advisor and investor in the SaaS technology industry. He has been running 360Learning now for 10 years and grown it into one of the leading LMS platforms for corporate education. He has also secured over 200M EUR in funding from funds such as SoftBank and Silverlake. The focus of the company is on collaborative learning and he has even written a book about the topic. He is based here in Paris, France.

We talk about: Why the company initially pivoted from K-12 education to corporate learning, the unique collaborative approach of 360Learning compared to traditional top-down methods, their recent acquisitions of eLamp and Looop, the influence of AI on learning & user experiences, and a solid dose of advice for emerging EdTech startups ….and lots more.

Outtakes:

• Something that's challenging with AI right now is to build a product that's not completely going to work right now, but you're building a product for GPT-5. You're building a product for GPT-6. You're not building a product for GPT-4. And I see a lot of people thinking like if the technology was static.

• I see a lot of entrepreneurs, a lot of companies going to market to raise money without any structure or process. So typically, first they're talking to VCs all the time, like they're constantly raising money. It's not the best way.

• We're living through fantastic times. It's time to build, take risks, imagine the future. There are some risks and we can be worried about the future, but we also have a lot of opportunities to build it. So, let's focus on building.

The ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠EdTech Garage⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ is a community for early-stage European EdTech startups where founders can scale up faster through the founder community, matchmaking and specialized resources. In this podcast series we interview startup founders & players supporting early-stage EdTech startups from across Europe. We get straight to the point in 20+ minutes and publish new episodes roughly every month. You can find the transcript from each podcast on the site below.

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Host: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Frank Albert Coates⁠⁠⁠

Music: ⁠⁠⁠Ehsansation