Joe Liemandt

Motivation is 90% of the solution.

The ed tech is 10%.

Just hitting the ed tech and the software and all that stuff, even though I come from the software background.

EdTech has failed.

We keep putting EdTech into schools and test scores keep going down.

So it's failed.

And the issue is EdTech is necessary but not sufficient.

It's 10% of the solution.

Educators will say you need two things to teach a kid.

First and most important, a motivated student.

And then second, you need to put them in lessons of the correct difficulties.

And not too easy, not too hard.

So in approximate development.

So EdTech does the second one really well.

AI tutors, right?

We can ask you what you know and what you don't know, take an assessment test, and then we're going to give you those questions.

But are you going to engage?

Do you have any interest in engaging?

Or if I don't engage with the app, then I'm not going to learn anything.

And so motivation is 90% and alpha is 100% built on solving the motivation problem.