Name Keith Schacht | ||
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Occupation Entrepreneur, angel investor Education University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Residence San Francisco, California, United States | ||
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston
Keith Schacht is an American serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He was named as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 25 by BusinessWeek, was a speaker at the TED Conference, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Business 2.0, and Wired.
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- Cost vs Quality in Edtech Keith Schacht Avichal Garg and Geoff Ralston
- Professional accomplishments
- References
Professional accomplishments
Keith Schacht's first company, founded while in college, was Lever Works, a custom software development shop. It was co-founded with Brian Witlin and Zach Kaplan. In December 2001 Lever Works was sold to Leo Media for an undisclosed sum.
In 2002, Schacht co-founded Inventables, a company that educates companies about new materials and technologies. The company was featured in numerous publications including Forbes in 2006 and Wired in 2007. He also gave a talk on "Toys from the Future" at the TED Conference in 2005
In 2007, Schacht founded Crafted Fun, an early company building applications on the Facebook platform. Crafted Fun raised funding from Apex Ventures and Naval Ravikant. The company developed a range of Facebook applications including Grow-a-Gift which was cited as a top application used by millions of people.
In 2010, Schacht joined Facebook as a product manager and launched an updated version of News Feed in 2011. He left the company in 2012.
In 2013, Keith co-founded Mystery Science with Doug Peltz. Mystery Science creates open-and-go lessons for elementary teachers and helps them teach science without requiring a background in science.