#352 - Ryan Delk - Founder @ Primer - Fixing the Broken US Education System & Saving San Francisco

The Fort - An Entrepreneurship Podcast

Ryan Delk is the CEO and Founder of Primer — a platform that helps the top 1% of teachers launch Microschools in their communities. He’s spent the last decade building tech companies (like Square, Gumroad, and Omni) and was homeschooled K - 8th grade, which served as the early inspiration for Primer.

We discuss:

- The state of education in America

- Building Primer

- Ryan’s mission to save San Francisco

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Links

Ryan on X

Primer

Topics

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:02:07) - Homeschooling & education in America

00:15:21 - Are we getting smarter in the current way we learn in school

(00:17:27) - Building Primer

(00:25:19) - The process of starting a Microschool

(00:30;15) - Zoning challenges & changing legislation

(00:37:15) - Raising money from iconic investors

(00:41:54) - Do people actively try to stop Primer from existing?

(00:45:30) - Hiring undiscovered talent

(00:52:17) - Ryan’s mission to save San Francisco

(01:00:10) - Problem paralysis

(01:02:28) - Grow SF

(01:10:19) - The vibe shift

(01:16:29) - Getting the most out of your day

(01:21:35) - It’s all fake

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