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Stephen Downes

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I never had much time for Kahoot, which always seemed to me to be 90 percent sales pitch and 10 percent tech. Anyhow, it has been sold to the  Goldman Sachs led consortium "in an all-cash PE deal at 35 NOK per share, valuing Kahoot at $1.7 billion" (which suggests to me that something rather less than $1.7 is actually changing hands, but what do I know?). Kahoot makes educational games, though their front page is currently pushing a presentation tool that combines "AI-enhanced features, word clouds, and brainstorms" for $29 a month.

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