In his past life, R5 Productions’ Sean Agnew was a ‘computer lab guy’ [LINKS]

The Evolution of Sean Agnew. [JUMP] “[Sean Agnew] was working on a degree in Information Sciences while living there. He might’ve finished two trimesters before he dropped out but he knew enough about computer sciences (at a time when most people didn’t) that he was confident he could easily find a job in the field, degree or not.” Also: Agnew used to run a music venue  called “4040” out of 4040 Locust Street — First Round Capital‘s present day headquarters.

Racial epithets litter text messages of Coatesville school officials [Philadelphia Inquirer]

No WhartoniteSeeksCodeMonkeys for Jake Schwartz (WG’08) at General Assembly [The Wharton Journal] “Since its 2011 launch, GA has raised over $14M in funding from investors like Zappos’ Tony Hsieh, Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian, DST’s Yuri Milner, Maveron and Bezos Expeditions. This week, we sat down with GA founder Jake Schwartz (Wharton ’08) to learn more about the GA story and his thoughts on MOOCs (massive open online courses), MBA entrepreneurs and the ever-lingering ‘WhartoniteSeeksCodeMonkey’ meme.”