3 Black Millennials Are Disrupting the Future of Education (here’s how they’re doing it working 9-5 full-time)

School is meant to provide skills and information that serves as a base for our career and life path, but often times, the education system doesn’t fully meet this purpose head on. While our current education system does provide students with a concrete base of knowledge, it often doesn’t truly prepare us for the critical life skills we need to be successful in the real world as adults.

In many schools, students aren’t taught important life skills like creativity, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy, and they often don’t discover how important these skills are until entering college or the workforce.

For example, LinkedIn recently shared a report that 57% of senior business leaders believe life skills like creativity and communication are essential in an ever-changing workforce where AI and automation technology are becoming more prevalent. This report and many others further argue that life skills are now more important than technical skills, yet several high schools all over the world continue to struggle with integrating life skills education into school curriculum and teaching life skills to high school students.

For this problem and more is one of the reasons why Tim Salau, Mike Yates, and Taban Cosmos decided to build their startup Guide.

Guide is the first and only social e-learning product in the world that addresses the life skills education gap in high school education by making it easy for high school students to learn essential life skills from their favorite creators. In addition, Guide offers a blended learning model that educators and parents can use in the classroom and at home to teach and practice life skills with their high school students.

Recently, Mogul Millennial was able to catch up with Tim and Mike, two of the co-founders of Guide.

Read why they decided to build Guide, how they’ve been preparing to launch, and how they are doing this all while working a 9-5 by clicking here!