Hadi Partovi, retired at 38 after working for Microsoft and creating other tech companies, was figuring out what to do with the rest of his life.
After spending his career in computers, he was troubled by one fact: In this digital age, only about one in 10 U.S. schools teach computer science.
"I thought, 'Why isn't computer science being taught?' " said Partovi, who lives in Seattle and is an investor in a number of companies, including Zappos and Air bnb.
Partovi and his twin brother, Ali, made a video to inspire students to learn computer science. "What Most Schools Don't Teach," starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and other tech moguls, went viral on YouTube, and Partovi fielded requests from 10,000 school districts asking how they could incorporate computer coding into their classrooms. …
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