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Disrupting the MBA w/ Ariel Renous Co founder and CEO of Augment

My hope for professional education is that it's going towards learning from people who've done it. I really believe that in today's world, content is abandoned and what's missing is an element of trust.

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Ariel Renous, Co founder and CEO of Augment joins the show to talk about

  • How Augment is disrupting the traditional MBA program.
  • Fundraising for Augment and $6M from RTP Global.
  • The future of executive education, and the importance of learning and raising money from people that have actually done the thing.

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Ariel Renous

CEO and Co founder of Augment

Ariel Renous is the CEO and Co founder of Augment, the world's best alternative to the traditional MBA. Augment aims to reshape  education by leveraging online tools to offer high-quality business knowledge straight from the minds of some of the brightest business leaders, like Steve Chen (Founder of YouTube), Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia), and Chris Barton (Co founder of Shazam).

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