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One of my mentors created Blackboard. It used to be very very good, but he sold it to private equity, and they immediately fired all of the customer support and
by HPMOR 4mo ago
One of my mentors created Blackboard. It used to be very very good, but he sold it to private equity, and they immediately fired all of the customer support and developers, 3xd prices overnight leading to the 'blackboard sucks' problem. This gave the opening for Canvas to eventually come on to the scene and dominate.
- rolandog 4mo agoMy wife and I each have to use it as we're both following an online master's at the same university... it's definitely gone downhill (compared to the days where I originally used it ~20 yrs ago in college; tracker-riddled, slow); surprisingly, a recent change made it so that you can only attend online lessons in Chrome (haven't had time to see if this is just a user-agent thing).
- corvad 4mo agoI believe Canvas was also sold to private equity pretty recently too. https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-acquired-by-KKR https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-...
- whoahwio 4mo agocanvas was bought by PE for the first time in 2020 https://www.thomabravo.com/portfolio/instructure https://www.thomabravo.com/portfolio/instructure
- redwood 4mo ago..and be acquired by PE so the cycle can continue.. https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-acquired-by-KKR https://www.instructure.com/press-release/instructure-to-be-... sigh. Barbarians at the gate probably didn't double down on security
- mizzao 4mo agoWas that Matt Pittinsky?
- HPMOR 4mo agoNo it was Dan Cane. He’s gone on to found a second decacorn called ModMed. Truly one of my role models.