THE TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEW
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The age of Pearson as a company
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The approximate size of Pearson’ s global workforce under Dave’ s technical oversight
Collaborating with big tech Pearson works with several major technology companies that also build their own training and learning tools, a dynamic some might frame as competitive.
However, Dave perceives it differently:“ We don’ t think of it as competition in any way.“ We’ re actually partnering with many of them and we’ re moving to being in a much more open ecosystem.” He describes the arrangement as mutually reinforcing, combining Pearson’ s education content and
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