Keith Schacht

I'm a builder, entrepreneur, and investor.

I've started many companies and sold a few. My first was in college; I sold it my junior year and dropped out. My "first love" was Inventables. It opened many doors like speaking at TED and meeting amazing people; and it was a modest success. My biggest success was Mystery Science (YC S17), which sold to Discovery Education. It's the most widely used science curriculum in America (and has hundreds of millions of views on YouTube). My last company was The Explanation Company. We set out to build a browser for kids, had a great founding team, raised $10M from great investors (led by a16z), but I failed to figure out a product that worked. Today, I'm back in exploring mode, playing with different ideas... I'm open to any fun conversations!

I lived in SF for a decade but currently live in Austin

I've been building on the internet since the BBS I ran in 1994

Spent a short time as a product manager at Facebook back in 2010

Ideas that are important to me:

We live in the best time ever in the history of the world. The fundamental driver of this progress is good ideas and their application, most evident in the tremendous advancements of science and technology over the past few hundred years.

A small group of talented people, gathered together with a shared purpose, can have a significant impact on the world.

The most important meta skills are learning how to identify the philosophic ideas you hold (because they begin as implicit ideas), and learning how manage your own psychology.

Keith Schacht

I'm a builder, entrepreneur, and investor.

Ideas that are important to me:

Recent technical articles

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