Jun 11, 2025
Gian Segato is a founding data scientist and engineer at Replit, one of the most ambitious and fastest-growing startups today. When he was in college, Segato founded Uniwhere, Italy's first app to help students manage college life end-to-end (he later sold it to a leading Italian education technology firm).
Last month, Segato guested in Pirate Wires with a banger on how AI is giving rise to one-person billion-dollar companies. Today, he's back with a new piece on why education startups are so difficult to build, and why they almost never pay off (until now, thanks to AI — maybe). If you've ever wondered why our schools feel like ancient relics of a forgotten civilization, and why they have not yet been remade by technology, this story is for you.
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