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OutRival Presents: The New Normal Ep. 1 - Penn Foster CEO Kermit Cook
Rubén Harris and Timur Meyster chatted with our friend Kermit Cook, CEO of Penn Foster, about reinventing a 135-year-old distance learning company for the AI era. Penn Foster was founded in 1890 to teach coal miners in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Today it graduates 93,000+ learners a year and is on a path to graduate 150,000 by 2029.
We get into deploying Digital Workers (AI Agents) to support working adults at $1,500 high school tuition, why Penn Foster is the third-largest "school district" in the country, the unusual journey from Dartmouth engineering to KKR to Penn Foster CEO, how to stop…
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