ETCH | Matthew Tower | Substack
Boston Happy Hour Tuesday, 11/22: Tomorrow (or today, depending on when you are reading this)! Hit reply to this email for details! End-of-Year Survey: Thank you to all the folks who have taken the time to fill out the State-of-EdTech survey. The survey will remain open until the end of November - I’d love to hear your thoughts on 2023 and what you think is in store for 2024! Survey here. End of Year Posting Schedule: There will be no Funding + M&A Update or Weekend Reading this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. There will be posts on 12/3 and 12/10 before I pivot to end-of-year posts and a holiday break in the second half of December. With that, on to the update! The business news of the weekend, across industries, is that OpenAI fired their CEO, Sam Altman for…reasons. There are lots of rumors swirling, but it is not my place to speculate on what happened. There are two lessons that are worth reflecting on for EdTech folks though, as they can (and should) be applied to
ETCH 5-minute, weekly updates on the EdTech ecosystem, with some opinion on the state of education attached A Power Struggle over PowerSchool Two operators' thoughts on how a short seller report turned into a buyout offer Hello! As announced last week, ETCH was acquired by Whiteboard Advisors. I am looking forward to growing the next evolution of this newsletter, The EdSheet. The first edition of which will land in your inboxes in July - I will cross-post the first few EdSheets here as well to smooth the migration. Subscribe to The EdSheet But! I have one last ETCH piece for you - a…
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