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Dan Feshbach

Sep 17, 2026

4:55
So what problem were you trying to solve and what did building TeachTown teach you about the difference between a technology that looks impressive and a technology families and school will actually use?
5:09
Well, that's probably several hours, but I'll try to bring it in tight.
5:16
First, we started with co-founding a school with four other families for Reed in Marin.
5:22
And that school had no curriculum.
5:25
We were making it up as we went.
5:27
And out of that was kind of two general problems.
5:32
One was... that the rate of learning language for my son was way too...
9:10
Can you see patterns that most parents can see?
11:57
in the autism and we talked about it a little bit offline, but in the autism innovation ecosystem that a single company could not fix.
12:07
Well, let me just reference back to my journey.
12:10
So when we, we, When we were building TeachDown, at one point I was the CEO and it was very clear that my knowledge of selling to school district rounded to zero.
12:23
At one point I had in my head when we started, how hard could this be? I built a financial technology platform that had an exit.
12:31
I had a team of coders.
12:34
I didn't manage them directly and model builders, financial model builders.
12:39
And we sold to complex organizations called banks and investment banks and things like that.

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39:03
So do you think AI can help us connect those data sets, identify meaningful biological subgroups What do you think AI can realistically change in that field?

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