About eduFire

We have a simple (but not easy) mission: Revolutionize education. Our goal is to create a platform to allow live learning to take place over the Internet anytime from anywhere. Most importantly...for anyone. We're the first people (that we know of) to create something that's totally open and community-driven (rather than closed and transaction-driven).

We're excited to create tools for people to teach and learn what they love in ways they never imagined possible. If changing the world is your thing and you're as passionate about education and learning as we are, please get in touch!

Jon Bischke

Jon is the business visionary behind eduFire and has over a decade of experience helping people to teach and learn online. He has been involved in starting two companies that have been acquired by publicly-traded companies (The 2000Tutor.com Network, acquired by Penton Media in 2001 and Zaadz, acquired by Gaiam in 2007) and a third (LearnOutLoud.com) which is currently operating profitably. A Minneapolis native, Jon graduated from the University of Minnesota and the UCLA Anderson School of Management and has an extensive background in the areas of training and education. He has taught business courses at the University of Minnesota, GMAT preparation courses for Kaplan Education and corporate training sessions for hundreds of technology professionals.

Scott Johnson

Scott is the engineering leader behind eduFire. He has led engineering teams building a variety of different products from one of the first commercial hypermedia tools to a large scale corporate Knowledge Management platform. Most recently Scott founded Feedster.com, a leading blog and RSS search engine which he scaled to over 20,000,000 blogs. Prior to Feedster, Scott was with Mascot Network, a leading provider of portal software for higher education. A Connecticut native, Scott graduated from the University of Bridgeport and has spent his career building large, scalable systems.

Jared Haworth

Jared is eduFire's Senior Software Engineer and one of the key implementors driving our platform forward. An experienced Ruby on Rails guru, Jared has been published numerous places including Advanced Rails Recipes and is a regular contributor to the Rails community. eduFire marks Jared's fourth major Rails project making him a leader in Rails applications.

Lily Chiu

Lily is the Director of Marketing at eduFire and a happy resident of San Francisco. Prior to eduFire, she was with a website testing & optimization startup called Offermatica that was then acquired by Omniture in late 2007. While at Offermatica and Omniture, she worked with large companies including Dell, eHarmony, Real Networks, Microsoft, and Experian to improve their conversion rates through continuous testing & optimization.  Lily graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Creative Writing.

Koichi

Koichi is the Social Media Marketing Manager at eduFire and a recent transplant to the big city of San Francisco. He graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon where he got a degree in Japanese Studies. Prior to joining eduFire, Koichi worked for the Washington State Department of Information and Technology, did research and development for BestPlaces.net, blogged for a living, and even taught Japanese full-time on eduFire for a little bit. Koichi is passionate about teaching, and would love to help more people make a full-time living sharing their knowledge online!