Asia Tech Podcast

EP 191 - Henry Motte-Muñoz - Founder at Edukasyon - Come Back With Ideas, Not With Ideals

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The Asia Tech Podcast welcomed Henry Motte-Muñoz, the Founder of Edukasyon, to the show.  Edukasyon is the go-to, online youth platform for making better-informed education, career, and life decisions.

Some of the topics that Henry and I discussed:

  • Growing up between Europe and the Philippines
  • Listening to impact, courage, and 'giving back' conversations around the dinner table
  • Working at Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital
  • Getting a scholarship to attend Harvard Business School
  • The benefits of Boston being a multi-campus city
  • Always wanting to go back to the Philippines and build something with impact, at scale, using technology
  • Education is the largest government expenditure in the Philippines
  • The Philippines PISA ranking
  • Moving from large, macro investments to real systemic changes
  • The importance of basic, foundational academic skills, making the right education choices, and soft skills
  • Scaling content in a way that is accessible
  • Working with partners like AWS EdStart

    • Other titles we considered for this episode:

    1. Everyone Was Giving Back In Some Form Or Another
    2. It Took Me a Solid Decade to Figure Out What To Do
    3. All Countries Go Through Stages
    4. What Are You Really Trying to Teach?
    5. Education Is a Multi-Stakeholder Industry
    6. What’s Your Vision for an Educated Child?
    7. How Does This All Feed Into a Career?
    8. It’s Not About Catching Up, It’s About Getting Ahead
    9. Our Role as Humans Is Not Just to Be a Production Unit for Some Company
      10. ...more
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