Aaron Rasmussen

Aaron Rasmussen is an American CEO and game designer. He is a co-founder of MasterClass,[1] an online education platform, USMechatronics and Harcos Laboratories[2] and the founder of Outlier.org,[3] a college level education platform that offers online college courses. In 2012, he and co-creator Michael T. Astolfi created and crowdfunded BlindSide,[4][5] a survival/horror adventure game, which was a finalist at IndieCade 2012.[6] In 2005, while a student at Boston University, he invented a robotic sentry gun.[7]

Aaron Rasmussen
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBoston University
Websiteaaronrasmussen.com

Early life

During a chemistry class in high school, Rasmussen was involved in a chemical explosion from a combination of red phosphorus and potassium chlorate, which resulted in his being temporarily blind; this temporary blindness later inspired the creation of BlindSide.[8]

Career

Rasmussen co-founded the online education platform MasterClass with David Rogier in 2012, and was responsible for its style and production processes.[9]

In 2018, Rasmussen founded Outlier.org, a university-level education platform that allows students to take online classes for college credit that are accredited by the University of Pittsburgh.[10]

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