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Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO at Coursera

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Late last February, after Japan’s prime minister closed every school in the country due to a novel respiratory infection that beset the region, Jeff Maggioncalda made a prediction.

Maggioncalda, the CEO of the online-learning platform Coursera, was on his way to an airport in Texas after visiting Rice University. But before boarding his flight to Utah, he sent an email to his staff.

“Team,” the email read, “Japan just closed every school in their country. I think this thing is going to become a pandemic, and all the schools in the world are going to details ⇒

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