Picture this: You’re the founder of a secretive research and development lab at one of the hottest companies in the world, likely paid a handsome salary for the privilege, and your name is in the media two to three times a week. Your role is to come up with life-changing ideas, and your biggest one to date is a car that drives itself. You’ve been called one of the world’s most creative people and you’re probably one of the cleverest too, having been a Stanford professor.
And then, at the top of your career, you give it all up.
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Thrun came to the realization that making education available to everyone – not just the elite few – could help people from all over the world.
“It was kind of, like, a calling to me. I hadn't anticipated that I'd become an online instructor or CEO of a company, a founder of a company that, that wants to democratize education. But when I realized that with this one class I had more teaching impact in this specific quarter than, like, the entire academic field combined in the entire world, I realized, ‘Oh my God. Something has to be done’,” he said.
And so, in 2012, Thrun left Google X, and Udacity was born.
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And then, at the top of your career, you give it all up.
[---]
Thrun came to the realization that making education available to everyone – not just the elite few – could help people from all over the world.
“It was kind of, like, a calling to me. I hadn't anticipated that I'd become an online instructor or CEO of a company, a founder of a company that, that wants to democratize education. But when I realized that with this one class I had more teaching impact in this specific quarter than, like, the entire academic field combined in the entire world, I realized, ‘Oh my God. Something has to be done’,” he said.
And so, in 2012, Thrun left Google X, and Udacity was born.
- More Here
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