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John is an educator and engineer. He is the CEO of Flourish Schools, creating a network of microschools growing the SuperPowers of middle school students. Previously, he was co-Founder and CEO of Rocketship Public Schools, an elementary school network now serving 12,000 students annually with 25 schools in 5 states. John was a fifth and second grade public school teacher before starting Rocketship. John’s first startup was NetGravity, the first Internet adserver company, where he was co-Founder and CEO. John took NetGravity public in 1998 and sold the company in 1999. John has a B.S. and M.S. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a M.Ed. in Education Policy from Vanderbilt University. He is a Stanford DCI Fellow, Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and was the 2010 winner of the McNulty Prize for Social Entrepreneurship from the Aspen Institute. John is the co-instructor of Lean Launchpad for Education at Stanford, a class focused on student teams launching new education companies.