"I went to the interview, it was partly in Spanish, my Spanish was terrible, and we still cobbled the interview together. Three days later he called and said, ‘I’ve got some good news and some bad news.’ I asked what the bad news was, and he said I didn’t get the teaching job. I asked what the good news was, and he said they were giving me the center manager role and that I needed to fly to Barcelona the next Monday for two weeks of training at the company’s headquarters. I thought, ‘Oh man, let’s do it.’” - Paul Blackstone, Founder of SummitLearn" - Paul Blackstone
"China was thriving at that time, and that was the rocket ship. It became an amazing opportunity to learn from a leadership perspective while scaling a business from something relatively small. It was a boiling pot of problems and challenges, but sometimes you have to take those opportunities. You’re going to get punched in the face, things will go wrong, there will always be something, but if you see growth and believe you can learn from it, you hang on because you don’t know where it will take you." - Paul Blackstone, Founder of SummitLearn" - Paul Blackstone
"To be an entrepreneur and create something new takes incredible courage and bravery. Anytime you step off and take that entrepreneurial journey, especially when you know it will take three times longer, cost three times as much, and be ten times more painful than you remember, that is brave. From the outside it looks easy, but on the inside you don’t know where the money is coming from to pay salaries that month. To be an entrepreneur and build something from zero demands real courage and bravery." - Paul Blackstone, Founder of SummitLearn" - Paul Blackstone
In this episode, Jeremy Au speaks on global EdTech lessons, China's hypergrowth era, and why mindset beats curriculum.
Keywords: Paul Blackstone, Global EdTech Lessons, China Hypergrowth Era, Why Mindset Beats Curriculum, China, Education, Southeast Asia, Founder Story
