In a world where nearly every sector has seen digital transformation—retail, finance, media, transportation—one sector stands stubbornly apart: higher education. Despite the proliferation of EdTech startups, funding rounds, and pandemic-driven online learning experiments, there is still no dominant EdTech platform for higher education institutions.
This is not a product problem. It’s a market structure problem—and one that offers an important lesson in the power of aggregation, the limits of enterprise sales, and the resilience of institutional inertia.
