🎧 An interview with Jeremy Howard about homeschooling
Jeremy is my mentor, friend, an incredible homeschooling dad, scientist, professor, entrepreneur and co-founder of the most popular deep learning course in the world
Our latest episode is an episode with Jeremy Howard, homeschool dad and co-founder of fast.ai.
About this episode
A lot of building a company is about persistence, flexibility and sheer will power. But every now and then, you get a stroke of extraordinary good luck.
That luck came to me when I sent a cold e-mail to Jeremy Howard, founder of the #masks4all movement, entrepreneur and creator of the most popular AI and deep learning course in the world.
In the email, I asked him to teach a workshop on how to make masks for kids. To my surprise and delight, Jeremy agreed…and also happened to notice my signature line, where I had a link to the new company I was creating to help families homeschool their kids.
This was in August 2020, and like a lot of parents, Jeremy was open to any weird, new solution to support educating kids from home. I had really no idea what I was going to offer, except that it would be customized to what parents wanted for their kids. Jeremy came to my open house and signed up as our first customer.
Over the last three years, Jeremy sat in on countless classes, giving me invaluable feedback on everything from how to set up an online environment conducive to physical movement, to offering actionable feedback to our young tutors on how to improve their teaching methods. We’ve tested technology, educational apps, interviewed tutors and co-hosted online birthday parties.
Jeremy has also been my unofficial CMO, responsible for recruiting at least 50% of our families by attending open houses, talking about his experience to his students and referring friends.
During the course of these last three years, Jeremy enrolled his daughter back in school, and then ultimately decided he wanted to homeschool her full-time.
In my most in-depth episode yet, Jeremy and I reflect on the last three years, his decision to homeschool, what that looks like on a daily basis… and much, much more.
Jeremy is one of the most brilliant people I know, a researcher, data scientist, entrepreneur, amazing father and generous friend and mentor.
It’s such a delight to share this episode now, with all of you.
And for many of you who are already Jeremy Howard super fans, and have been asking Jeremy for his favorite resources on homeschooling and education, we’ve compiled many of them below!
SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
Jeremy Howard: LinkedIn | X | YouTube | Fast.ai
Teach Your Kids: LinkedIn | X | Instagram | Substack | Facebook
Manisha: LinkedIn | X | Instagram | Facebook
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