Nicolette Rankin

Founder & CEO, Lesson of the Day, PBC

I've spent 20 years building education technology that reaches people who need it most. My life's work is proving that universal education isn't an aspiration — it's an engineering problem. And engineering problems have solutions.

Building Lesson of the Day, PBC — a Public Benefit Corporation delivering one interactive lesson every day, in 8 languages, for every age group, to every human on Earth. Our AI teacher Kelly reaches the learners the world forgot.

Today's lesson is live at thedailylesson.com.

• Co-founded OpenEnglish — scaled to $171M revenue, 2M+ students, 18 countries2007
• Co-founded OpenEducation — international EdTech operations2012
• Harvard Business School case study protagonist2014
• Founded Lesson of the Day, PBC2025
• Launched The Daily Lesson — AI-powered universal education2026

Pepperdine University — B.A. Industrial Organizational Psychology, cum laude

AI doesn't replace teachers. It reaches the 6 billion people who don't have access to one. The Daily Lesson is building the dictionary, the classroom, and the device that makes universal education real — not as charity, but as infrastructure.

Every word is a door. We're building the hinges.