LAUNCH Education & Kids Keynote Speeches from Nolan Bushnell and Marshall Tuck #267

Click here to stream the audio version of this episode.

Join our mailing list and be the first to learn about upcoming guests!

Today, on This Week in Startups, we're bringing the LAUNCH Education & Kids conference to you! If you weren't able to attend this incredible event in Mountain View last week, now's your chance to hear the two inspiring keynote speeches that were delivered by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and Marshall Tuck, the CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.

1:00-4:45 Thank you to Sourcebits for supporting the show! Everyone thank @Sourcebits!
4:45-5:30 Jason introduces Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.
5:30-25:00 Nolan's keynote: Why are we forcing everyone down the same educational path?
25:00-31:00 A demo of Nolan's new project, BrainRush.
31:00-34:00 Q&A with Nolan: How do you teach something complex on this platform?
34:00-35:00 Efficacy and design are key: If it's not pretty, it will fail.
35:00-36:30 What about paying students to achieve results?
36:30-43:00 Question from the audience: Who decides which kids should go to college and which shouldn't?
43:00-45:00 Question from the audience: What do you think of badges?
45:00-48:30 Big thanks go out to GoToMeeting for their continued support! "Like" their Facebook page to be entered in a drawing to win an iPad!
48:30-49:30 Jason introduces Marshall Tuck, the CEO of Partnership for Los Angeles Schools.
49:30-59:00 Marshall's keynote: Explaining the PLAS mission.
59:00-1:07:00 Marshall explains the Achieve 3000 software program rolled out to middle and high schoolers.
1:07:00-1:10:45 Q&A with Marshall: Why did you choose to do this? You've worked in enterprise software and as an investment banker, so why this?
1:10:45-1:16:30 What's the best way for a technology company to approach a school with their product?
1:16:30-1:19:00 What's the impact of free, open-source courseware?
1:19:00-1:22:30 Question from the audience: For a founder who's trying to sell to teachers, how do we balance profitability and achievement in the classroom?
1:22:30-1:24:45 Question from the audience: What product or service do you wish you had now that you haven't seen yet?

Support This Week in Startups and independent media by joining the TWiST Producer Program at TwistList.co!

Want to support TWiST another way? Use bit.ly/twistamazon when you shop and a portion of your purchase will go toward helping keep independent media like TWiST on air!

Keep up with the latest from our sister company, LAUNCH:

• Live Blogging LAUNCH Education & Kids - Day Two
• Live Blogging LAUNCH Education & Kids - Day One
• LAUNCH Education & Kids: 30 Companies (6 Stealth) Plus Scoble, Alan Louie and Nolan Bushnell
• Yahoo to Launch “Chrome Killer” Tonight
• First Eight Companies for LAUNCH Education & Kids

FOLLOW ON TWITTER
Jason: @jason
Nolan: @nolanbushnell
GoToMeeting: @gotomeeting
Sourcebits: @sourcebits

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PREFERRED PARTNER eMINUTES
Lawyers who focus on forming and maintaining corporations and LLCs. Check them out at eMinutes.com and @eminutes.

Special thanks to the members of the TWiST Backchannel Program!

Executive Producers

• Louis-Eric Simard
• Benjamin Gifford
• Jacek Artymiak
• Octavian Mihai
• Will Paoletto
• Geoffrey Clapp
• Jeff Hoffer
• Austin Miller
• Rashaun Sourles
• Robb Kunz
• Greg Berry
• Sean Lynch
• Mary Ann Halford
• Jim Joyce
• Morgan Howard
• Margaret Johns
• Kyle M. Brown
• Paul Cole
• Nick Duncan
• Magnus Ingvarsson
• Amir Ayalon
• Carlos Zaidenweber
• Avery Keitt
• Joshua Shipsey

Producers

• Eli Coler
• Ted Inoue
• Radek Rybicki
• Hunter Owens
• Ildar Khakimov
• Matti Hallanoro
• Rodrigo Dauster
• Rodrigo Fuentes
• Anthony Ortenzi
• Daniel de la Cruz
• Michael Hofmann
• John Meneses
• Mike Sunyich
• Sami Rageb
• Michael Lustig
• Alex Deli
• John Davies
• Mark Burcher
• Morgan Howard

Associate Producers

• Brad Pineau
• Kat Ganesan
• Nicholas Christian
• Mau Frontier
• Kyle Braatz
• Serena Ehrlich
• JD
• Alex Lotoczko
• James Kennedy
• Benoit Curdy
• Asher Nevins
• Mike Kaltschnee
• William Doom
• David Lee
• Jake Kerber
• Sarp Coskun
• Giuseppe Taibi
• Tyrone Rubin
• Keno Vigil
• Paul Peters
• Jamal Waring
• Nick Ostroff
• Alex Binkley
• John MP Knox
• Bryan McCormick
• Marcos Trinidad
• Allen Cordrey
• Daniel Mich
• Joshua Rosen
• Grant Carlile
• James Smith
• Christopher Rill
• Elliot Myhre
• Nihon Giga
• Nathan Gielis
• Greg Meadows
• Rick Cartwright
• Jacques Struwig
• Robert Ward
• Adam Gering
• Shelley Gaskin

Supporters

• Ryan Hoover
• Michael Cranston
• Josiah Thomas
• João Fernandes
• Petrus Theron
• Michael Wild
• Dale Emmons
• Tim de Jardine
• Alejandro Vasquez
• Milan Babuskov
• Chris Rowe
• Nelson Melo
• James Dawson
• Toddy Mladenov
• Daniel Torres
• Chris Macke
• Piotr Zuralski
• Armand Konan
• Brian Vogel
• Paul D
• Jennifer Sun
• David Kolb
• Sue Marrone
• Eugene Granovksy
• Will Blackton
• Ryan Dodds
• Brett Arp
• Jason Cresswell
• Edwin Orange
• Daniel Bradley
• Shawn Daniel
• Priidu Kull
• Patrick Desroches
• Alex Lam
• Paul Secor
• Ryan Urabe
• Madhu R.
• Paul Ardeleanu
• Ian Thomas
• Manny Alarcon
• Charlie Osmond
• Christopher Smitley
• Roshan H.
• Barcy Cordrey
• Matt Beaubien
• Matthew Smith
• Oscar Bueno
• Tim Hoyt
  
• Ian Gerstel
• Taphon Maddison
• John Bradley
• Luigi Armogida
• Dave Ferrara
• Janus Lindau
• Chris Mancil
• TR Ludwig
• Giles Thomas
• Jason Cartwright
• Michael Del Borrello
• Joshua Rosen
• David Karlberg
• Marcus Schappi
• Justin Furniss
• Mike Hauck
• Jess Bachman
• Isaac Hill
• Robert Haydock
• Dan Sfera
• Flaviu Simihaian
• Kiko Cherman
• Chandra Siva
• Kasper Andkjaer
• Zach Woodward
• Chris Galasso
• Chad Olsen
• Michael Grabham
• John Shiple
• Gregory Hoffman
• Chris Rickard
• Eskil Steenberg
• Jay Moran
• Karim Sarkis
• Michael Davidovich
• Petru Marchidan
• Sam Drzymala