Victor Hu's focus on education comes from personal experience, growing up across Asia, Africa, and North America with a father in the diplomatic corps, having a grandmother who was the first female president of a leading teacher's college in Taiwan in the 1960s, and crediting a high school math teacher in Taiwan with helping him make up a full year of coursework through one-on-one tutoring. He also stands out for breaking down early childhood education into specific categories like back-office software and hybrid hardware-software products, for pointing to distribution and retention as the real test of success in fragmented education markets, and for contributing to outside research on corporate learning with BCG and Ontario Teachers' innovation platform.