Are you too old to go to school? Are you too young to innovate?
Pierre Dubuc and Mathieu Nebra, co-founders of Openclassrooms, created their first start-up when they were 11 years old (although they had to wait until they turned 18 to register it). They are now one of the main publishers of MOOCs for web skills in French. Xavier Fontanet, on the other hand, started selling his strategy courses for entrepreneurs on the Apple app store at the age of 64, and made them into digital bestsellers.
Innovation in education is very simple: it is about sharing the right knowledge with the right people using the right tools. It is not about age. (more…)