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There are a lot of people out there trying to be "unique" or "special"... A lot of them are... I'm not trying
to be unique; I'm just trying to be the best person I can be. I'm Carson Kahn, and I'd
like to be your CEO Apprentice. In high school, two close friends and I began building a social
Learning Communities Management System [LCMS] for secondary schools, which are grossly underserved
in the ed tech world... Two years later, we decided to launch a startup called Keystone!
We even wanted to put it through TechStars in Boulder. But, in the autumn, with my colleagues
heading off to Stanford and Harvard, we decided to put the LLC on hold, and I flew out to
Manhattan to be Specialist for Operations and Marketing of Online and Distance Learning
at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where I've been leading marketing and enrollment
operations for our upcoming MOOCs. I connected with Hunter Horsely at Technapex last month,
where he said something remarkable: Education is an outstanding place to have a company,
because your audience is a bunch of really smart people, and the folks you work with
are a bunch of really smart people! To me, there's no nobler a cause — no more impactful
a cause — than revolutionizing learning. Learning is the basis of the human experience;
knowledge is the basis of communication. Teaching and learning are really "two sides of the
same coin", and education is the thread that unifies all of this... all of us.
When I see an opportunity, I seize it. Thinking "big" like that, is how I learn. It's how I give
back to a world that has helped me learn *so* much. It's that curiosity, that inner drive,
that love of craft that I hope to bring to Lore. I want to be one of the "crazy ones";
I want to be one of those "round pegs in squares holes"... Because the ones who are "crazy
enough to think that CAN change the world"... Those are the ones who do.