Coursera CEO on merits of online learning combined with remote working

Jeff Maggioncalda tells Anjuli Bhargava how online learning combined with remote working can be a game changer for disadvantaged societies

It took a call from Nobel prize-winning economist and Stanford professor William (Bill) J Sharpe to change Jeff Maggioncalda’s destiny. An English and quantitative economics major from Stanford and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he was about to join McKinsey when Sharpe called to say he was starting a company that would provide investment education and financial knowledge. Would Maggioncalda write the business plan for it? And if the plan turned out good enough and brought in funds, he could steer the company and be its founding CEO.

I am connecting with Maggioncalda in Palo Alto, California,