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 have the Rodney Dangerfield, no respect sort of culture at Blackboard, which has served us well, in terms of not getting too beyond our own britches. But I mean, we are not - we ended up having a very successful offering. But everything that we heard that, like people negotiate, we either are r...(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
