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Pearson\u2019s Andy Bird: \u201cEducation is going to be disrupted like music\u201d

The Sunday Times\u2019 tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Andy Bird, chief executive of Pearson, to talk about transforming the education giant (5:40), creating textbook \u201cplaylists\u201d (8:30), growing up in Manchester (14:45), getting into the entertainment industry (16:10), being recruited by Bob Iger (21:30), remaking Disney's foreign operations (23:05), cutting ties with Netflix (27:40), failing at Disney\u2019s first streaming attempt (29:10), retiring (34:25), un-retiring and join Pearson {38:00), the backlash over his \u2018golden hello\u2019 (41:00), the breakdown of the higher education business model (43:40), the future of Pearson (49:40), overhauling a 177-year-old company (52:40), and learning from failure (57:40).

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