Curation as a Service Billion Dollar Startup Ideas Problem: When you don’t know what you don’t know, it’s difficult if not impossible to know how to start learning and/or what to learn. Solution: My cousin always jokes about the “University of YouTube” — the place where every piece of information you could ever want to know exists. However, the problem with this University is that it has no course catalogue. With a wealth of information online, this business would make a bet that the next generation of educators will not be lecturers, but master curators. Those who are able to comb through thousands of untagged videos, PowerPoints, and websites to create a syllabus of new value and content are the educators and learners that would thrive. This business would provide a search engine where you can search for a topic you’d like to learn (i.e. “Venture Capital Level 1/2/or 3”, “Creating a Private Equity Fund”, “Marketing 101”, and more) in addition to a platform for users to create their own curation categories. Given the rise in remote learning, I truly believe that the future of learning won’t necessarily be hinged on what school you went to or who instructed you, but instead based on what you know and your ability to effectively apply these skills on a day-to-day or case-by-case basis. One individual who’s bullish on this phenomenon is Chris Cantino who argues that Newsletters will become a marketplace through 5 features, (1) Native carts/checkouts, (2) Curation as a service, (3) Superapps/Mini-Programs, (4)Last mile democratized for indie curators/affiliates, and (5) Vertical value adds. The cause of this trend? Retailers searching for niche micro-communities.