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One Trillion Dollars, Student Debt and Higher Education: Greg Gottesman at TEDxSeattle

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Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group, a leading venture capital firm based in Seattle. Greg currently serves on the boards of 10 private companies, as a board member of Startup Weekend and the W Fund, and as President of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association. He founded Rover.com, the Web’s largest dog sitting marketplace, and teaches Entrepreneurship at the University of Washington. Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and with honors from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. When not spending time helping to build startups or trying to be a good father to three children, Greg regularly injures himself playing non-contact sports.

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11 Comments on “One Trillion Dollars, Student Debt and Higher Education: Greg Gottesman at TEDxSeattle”

  1. I see so many bitter comments on this talk from people who drank the kool aid. LOL. If you could not see that this college "fear mongering" was a scam, it is your fault!!! Cry, cry, cry! Why, why, why! Maybe some of you should have used those brilliant minds to pursue the things that could make you happy and put money in your pocket rather than playing it "safe." What you thought was safe, actually was very dangerous. Oh well…back to my debt free life as an entrepreneur. Yup, a college drop out who gives jobs to other people. Am I rich, no, but I am not in debt and I love my life. No stressing over here.

  3. I honestly believe that it is far better to dump thousands of dollars upon community libraries than to dump thousands of dollars on universities.  Unlike universities, libraries are open to EVERYONE.  Universities tend to favor whites and asians who have access to middle class or upper class wealth. Never, ever underestimate a high-end library.

  4. GOVERNMENT BAILOUT, GOVERNMENT BAILOUT, GOVERNMENT BAILOUT.  After our foolish government bails out this generation, our educational institutions will create another additional trillion dollars in debt.  Then for each trillion dollar debt burdened generation, GOVERNMENT BAILOUT, GOVERNMENT BAILOUT.  The corruption of private student loan companies, the stupidity of legislators to keep student loan immune to bankruptcy, the offering of useless degrees like english, history, anthropology, psychology, biology, economics, etc. is to blame.  Universities hire ivory tower professors to teach worthless classes.  You know what will eventually happen.  I will predict the future for you since Greg Gottesman is so spineless to mention the truth.  CHINA WILL ACQUIRE U.S. ASSETS.  We can all slave away for the Chinese government for eons.

  5. Forgive my ignorance, but why not simply eliminate the prohibition on bankruptcy for loans taken after the first of the new year. Lenders will have to be more cautious which will result in fewer students who can afford going to school. The drop in demand will push the price of education down, and force some universities to shut down useless programs. The sky will be falling for a while, but it will balance out. That and maybe eliminating the first two years of college where you essentially relearn everything you were supposed to have learned in high school.

  6. One Trillion Dollar Student Debt
    A MUST WATCH for any student or parent getting ready to or already accruing student loan debt for college.

  7. So that was a total waste of twelve and a half minutes of everyones time.    Great… He identified a massive societal problem, but offered up no solution.  Thanks totally creative self-styled "venture capitalist" that teaches a course on entrepreneurship.

  11. Man this is Sad, and Americans ave the guts to say that they live in the best contrie in the World …

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