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. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
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. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
Google’s real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It’s that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits – I wasn’t. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you’re stupid. You don’t think, ‘If this kid’s not a good fit, it could be the system’s fault.’ Jose Ferreira Read Quote
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. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
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. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that’s always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything – and it’s not even close. We’re looking at what you know, what you don’t know, how you learn best. The big difference between us and other big data companies is that we’re not ever marketing your data to a third party for any reason. Jose Ferreira Read Quote
