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Jim Lobdell

reachcapital.com

Jim is an accidental entrepreneur and an even more accidental investor. After graduating from Stanford, he was driven to make a difference in the world and took to being a public high school teacher. His classroom was a lively, noisy testament to the power of hands-on learning, which he later codified as History Alive! when he co-founded Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, which he operated for 16 years. Two subsequent education startups later, he joined Reach as a venture partner to help like-minded founders pursue their mission. Venture Partner at Reach Capital. A Stanford graduate and former public high-school teacher, he co-founded Teachers’ Curriculum Institute and developed its History Alive curriculum. He operated that business for sixteen years and subsequently built other education companies before becoming a venture partner.