Michael Karnjanaprakorn thinks anyone can be a teacher --
doers, dreamers, thinkers, tinkerers. Anyone, yourself included. No college degree, formal
training or accreditation required. All you need is knowledge and passion, and
an eagerness to share both.
The 33-year-old entrepreneur and world champion poker
player’s mission in life is to democratize education throughout the world, one
online class at a time. “My goal is to transform education and make it
accessible to every single person on this planet,” he says. “Education is a
basic human right and we need to break down the $50,000 tuition barrier to it
so that anyone anywhere can learn whatever they set their mind to.”
To make the dream he set his mind to a reality,
Karnjanaprakorn co-founded Skillshare, a “learning community for creators,”
with his good friend.
Five years ago, Skillshare offered only two classes,Today, the
burgeoning subscription-monetized startup, anchored in the heart of New York
City’s SoHo neighborhood, offers some 1,700-plus peer-to-peer classes online.
In all, the platform has served an estimated 1 million students.
Video-based courses that people take at their own pace on
demand are offered on the buzzy, ad-free education hub in several categories
and subcategories. They cover everything from snapping creative self-portrait
pics (selfies!), to creating effective Google AdWords campaigns, to brewing
your own beer at home to throwing a pot on a pottery wheel. You can even learn
the art of screenwriting for short films from actor James Franco. The class
list is constantly updated and there’s something for everyone.
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