Maven - The Modern Apprenticeship

Our guest Wes Kao is the cofounder of Maven, a new online education platform that's raised $25M from A16Z and First Round.

Maven’s classes are like mini-apprenticeships. Live courses where you can learn tangible, hard skills from operators who are excellent at that skill. Writing, blockchain development, product management - you learn by doing and Wes and the team at Maven aim to make each class hyper tactical.

We talk about why professors need to become entertainers, where earlier models of online education fall short, Wes’ Hierarchy of Bullshit, and how you can potentially build your own online course business with Maven’s tools.

Courses are actually pretty fantastic businesses. Maven is prelaunch, but 10 instructors are already making over a hundred thousand dollars per three-week class. Maybe more of us should be teaching.

Check out all of Maven’s classes and their open roles here: https://maven.com/about

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