Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
We know everything about what you know and how you learn best because we get so much data. And education is the highest-stakes media product in your life. It's infinitely more important than your Facebook friends' status updates or your… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.' — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them,… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs,… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids.… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up. — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
