Matthew Pittinsky co-founded Blackboard, Inc in 1997 with a mission to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. Today, Backboard is considered by most industry analysts to be the leading provider of e-Education systems around the world.
Matthew Pittinsky received his undergraduate degree from American University and a Masters in Education from Harvard University. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University Teacher's College studying the sociology of online learning.
We had a certain level of capital requirement that we thought was appropriate to what we wanted to do. And we did not want - we believed that the IPO price would be the cheapest price. And we if we do our job right, that will be the cheapest stock that we ever sell. So our goal was to minimize di...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Matthew Pittinsky Provides Introduction to Dan Cane, Steve Gilfus and Lecture on Company, Blackboard
Matthew Pittinsky Discusses Decision To Go Public and Fact That Blackboard Straddles Education and Technology Markets
Matthew Pittinsky Discusses Qualified Provision of IPO and Influence of Pricing on IPO
Matthew Pittinsky Discusses Whether or Not He Would Work With a Bank Whose Analysts Had Negative Comments About the Stock
Matthew Pittinsky States Decision To Go Public Was More For Status and Ability to Sell Than About the Cash
Matthew Pittinsky Discusses Biggest Challenge of Starting a Business Is Finding Capital
Matthew Pittinsky Discusses Difference in First Draft Of Prospectus Which Was Prior to Sarbanes-Oxley
