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Sep 29, 2026
The Playbook Nobody Reads: Arun Ramanathan on Mergers, Scale, and AI in Education
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Arun RamanathanGUEST
Now, the difference, what we did when we merged Pivot and Core together, and then, you know, a nonprofit and a for-profit, was that there were synergies and benefits associated with that in terms of, you know, our reach and connections in California at the administrative superintendent level and Core's very strong IP and national reach that you know, when merged together, allowed us essentially many more scaling opportunities and many more impact opportunities, right? The interesting thing is, is that we held it as a subsidiary.

Arun RamanathanGUEST
We didn't merge it in because there are also benefits to retaining inside that our organization pivot, a for-profit with a very strong sales marketing culture, also very, very strong IP, right? We merged with Unbound Ed, and the idea behind that merger was that there were two organizations that were extremely strong financially, with strong IP, different geographies.

Arun RamanathanGUEST
There was very little overlap, and see where the synergies could be in order to...

Arun RamanathanGUEST
Well, you know, beyond the 200 districts we were working with, we projected we, you know, when we combine together, we would essentially be working with 400 school districts.
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Pivoting to what everyone's talking about these days, which is AI, I know you've put some thinking into this question of what are we missing in our discussion of AI and what do we actually need to do to get it right for kids and society? So I just want to give you a moment to riff on that.
