by Talya Zax, Forward

That goal of building an ideal life, whether at home or at work, came up again and again in our conversation. If there’s one takeaway from Mattan Griffel, who last year was named to Forbes’s 30 Under 30 list in Education, it’s that he’s obsessed with making all things — online education, the process of building a startup, his company’s workplace culture, himself — better. Griffel’s position on the Forbes list is a symbol of the way in which the education industry is changing. In schools, the ratio of computers and iPads to students grows closer and closer to 1-to-1; more broadly, the Internet has opened up the world of self-education and continuing education in unprecedented ways.

http://forward.com/culture/332268/learning-to-build-a-business-in-one-month/