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Gutenberg Technology
Gutenberg Technology is a Franco-American B2B SaaS company that builds an end-to-end Learning Content Management System (LCMS) and AI-powered authoring tools. Its MobileFirst platform lets publishers, universities, and enterprises author, transform, reuse, and distribute print and digital learning content from a single workflow. Trusted by names like Cengage, National Geographic Learning, Vista Higher Learning, and CompTIA, the platform has powered 230,000+ learning assets reaching 7+ million learners, and in 2025 launched an AI Course Builder that converts existing documents into structured eLearning modules.
John Eielson
John Eielson is co-CEO and co-founder of FlatWorld, a Boston-based digital-first publisher that sells college textbooks for roughly $25 to $40 to make higher education more affordable. A former U.S. Coast Guard officer turned strategy consultant, he and longtime business partner Alastair Adam acquired the assets of Flat World Knowledge in 2016 and rebuilt it around a simple idea: instructors matter, and quality and affordability do not have to be a tradeoff. Today FlatWorld's titles are used by professors at more than 2,000 colleges and universities.