This episode’s guest is George Straschnov, Managing Director of strategic education technology fund, Bisk Ventures. George has been a long-time lawyer and dove into venture capital since the early 2000s. Bisk Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Bisk Education who were some of the pioneers of what became the online MBA and helped bring a lot of major universities to transition their modules online.

 

George shares some of his insights on the edtech space and what he predicts for the future of learning post-COVID19.

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Follow Bisk: twitter.com/BiskVentures

Bisk Ventures website: www.biskventures.com

 

 

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