Mihail Eric had long been deeply interested in education and wanted to return to Stanford to teach and give back.

“And so I, I had this idea like, "Hey, well, is there a way to kind of structure a curriculum around this that's a little bit more formal?" Had the idea. And you know, I, I-- my alma mater is Stanford, and I always had this dream to go back and teach something and, and kind of pay it forward.”

“Uh, I've always been very deep into education. I talked to Chip, who also taught a class, uh, one of my good friends.”