Its partner, the Collaborative Fund, is an early investor in Lyft and Kickstarter.
In 1966, Sesame Street‘s founders wondered whether the prevailing entertainment technology of the time, television, could be used to educate young children. They got their first chance to test the theory when the first show aired in 1969, and now, 45 years and more than 1,000 research studies later, the answer is clearly “yes.”