{"id":147,"date":"2010-12-06T01:15:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/cheggs-mission-is-to-educate-the-world-well-done-aayush\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T18:22:12","slug":"cheggs-mission-is-to-educate-the-world-well-done-aayush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/cheggs-mission-is-to-educate-the-world-well-done-aayush\/","title":{"rendered":"Chegg&#8217;s mission is to educate the world &#8211; well done Aayush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/picture-17.png\" title=\"picture-17.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/picture-17.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"picture-17.png\" vspace=\"2.0\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"2.5\" \/> <\/a>Over pasta and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiramisu\">Tiramis<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiramisu\">u <\/a> in Palo Alto last week I met up with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chegg\">Aayush Phambhra, founder of Chegg<\/a>. Having both had the problem of overly priced University textbooks, we discussed the mission of Chegg &#8211; which I fully endorse.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, it&#8217;s a noble profession to help the world in education and with Google Books making it an open environment where any device can (not like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\">Apple&#8217;s iPad<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/kindle\">Amazon&#8217;s Kindle <\/a>) access books, I like what Chegg are doing.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, mankind needed to invent a distribution system that would take in real time the knowledge contained in books to those who afford to buy a book or find a library who could lend them a book. Having a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/09\/opinion\/09brin.html?_r=1\"> library to last forever<\/a> is a noble cause and I hope others around the world help Chegg make books accessible to their people. Education is the key to a better world. Aayush, Chegg and Google Books are doing that. Keep up the good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over pasta and Tiramisu in Palo Alto last week I met up with Aayush Phambhra, founder of Chegg. Having both had the problem of overly priced University textbooks, we discussed the mission of Chegg &#8211; which I fully endorse. Firstly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/cheggs-mission-is-to-educate-the-world-well-done-aayush\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}