I started Knewton to do my bit to fix the world's education system. — Jose Ferreira Bit 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 Always Copy Share Image
It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors. — Jose Ferreira Customer Copy Share Image
Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative… — Jose Ferreira Because Copy Share Image
Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its… — Jose Ferreira Business Copy Share Image
If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time,… — Jose Ferreira Becomes Copy Share Image
Anyone who sincerely wanted to use policy to reduce illegal immigration should start by crafting legislation based on changing actual behavior. — Jose Ferreira Actual Copy Share Image
The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. — Jose Ferreira Area 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… — Jose Ferreira About 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… — Jose Ferreira Ads Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists buy minority positions in young companies they think will grow quickly; buy-out investors buy most or all of companies they… — Jose Ferreira Around 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… — Jose Ferreira Able Copy Share Image
What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest,… — Jose Ferreira Absolute 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… — Jose Ferreira About 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… — Jose Ferreira Any Copy Share Image
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs,… — Jose Ferreira Because 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… — Jose Ferreira Bad Copy Share Image
No one cares how valuable your product is if its addressable market is small. The key isn't so much the number of… — Jose Ferreira Cares Copy Share Image
I spent most of my career in education and technology. I worked at Kaplan, and I was one of the first people… — Jose Ferreira Bring Copy Share Image
If I had to give one piece of advice to a budding entrepreneur, I would say: 'Aim big.' — Jose Ferreira Advice 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… — Jose Ferreira After Copy Share Image
If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks -… — Jose Ferreira Bank Copy Share Image
The best programmers and internet entrepreneurs are in the Bay Area. Don't kid yourself about that, not even for a second. — Jose Ferreira About Copy Share Image
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world. — Jose Ferreira Also Copy Share Image
Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials. — Jose Ferreira Big Copy Share Image
In a crisis, markets always look to see who is the next-worst off and proactively begin shying away from them. — Jose Ferreira Always Copy Share Image
Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently… — Jose Ferreira Accessible Copy Share Image
You need more than just a great idea. Your product or service must add an enormous amount of value to some industry.… — Jose Ferreira Add Copy Share Image
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding. — Jose Ferreira Adds Copy Share Image
Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global… — Jose Ferreira Among Copy Share Image
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are… — Jose Ferreira Applications Copy Share Image
We get more data about people than any other data company gets about people, about anything - and it's not even close.… — Jose Ferreira About Copy Share Image
