John is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in technology and education. He is the CEO of Flourish Education, a network of AI-powered microschools for grades 6-8. He is the Chairman of Project Read, an AI tutor teaching over 100,000 students to read in elementary schools. Previously, John was co-founder and CEO of Rocketship Education, an elementary school network now serving 12,000 students with 25 schools in 5 states. John was a fifth and second grade public school teacher before starting Rocketship. John’s first startup was NetGravity, the first Internet ad server company, where he was co-founder and CEO. John took NetGravity public in 1998 and sold the company in 1999. John has a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a M.Ed. in Education Policy from Vanderbilt University. He is a Stanford DCI Fellow, Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and was the 2010 winner of the McNulty Prize for Social Entrepreneurship from the Aspen Institute. John is the co-instructor of Lean Launchpad for Education at Stanford, a class focused on student teams launching new education companies.
