Mike was frustrated

with what he saw as

limited access to education,

and founded Skillshare as a way to

create an online learning community

focused on real-world skills.

 Mike couldn’t believe it.

He’d gone down to New Orleans to volunteer after Hurricane Katrina,

and was stunned at the devastation and

the struggles these communities faced in rebuilding.

He saw plan after plan to rebuild things as they’d been before,

and he couldn’t understand why.

How could we avoid repeating our mistakes?

How could we learn to create better? To innovate better?

And the answer wasn’t innovation alone:

it was building our collective confidence in the possibility of innovation.

It was convincing everyone that we could improve.

We could do it better. Smarter.

A few years later, he turned his vision into a reality.

He founded a company called Skillshare.