The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Euan Blair reads as The Reformer, a leader whose entire venture is an argument against an entrenched system. With Multiverse, he has built a company around the premise that the university degree should not be the default gateway to professional careers, championing apprenticeships as a rigorous, equitable alternative.
“Definitely, right? I've got two young kids, Lex is three and a half and Rafe is a year and a half old. So they're incredible. Love spending time with them, right? And it's really important to make that time for them My wife broader family as well around that You don't want to be. All consumed by one thing all of the time.”
“It's never normally kind of one person, but I'm lucky enough we've got some incredible investors and board members, right? Danny Reimer at Index, Joel Cutler, who founded a general catalyst, Mary Mika, Kenshenolt, who was CEO of American Express 15 for 15, 20 years.”
“So it was almost naive of policymakers to assume that would be inevitable. The challenge you've got is twofold. It's partly the increase in costs of higher education. It's also the often inscrutable or inadequate admissions criteria of higher education institutions. An obsession with academics above everything else.”
“Address that head on, we will end up with more Brexit, more Trump, more stuff that basically just pulls people apart in democracies. And the idea was university rather than becoming the solution to the problem had actually become the problem in and of itself, build a serious alternative, take this historic apprenticeship model that makes…”
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