Hacking Education: From Silicon Valley Executive to $56M School Founder | Rob C. Bolt

From leading teams at Intel and Oracle to securing a $56 million partnership for public education, Robert C. Bolt has spent his career breaking traditional systems. Now, he’s in Puerto Rico to transform how the next generation learns through Design Thinking.In this landmark episode—the first-ever all-English interview on The Blueprint—host Alberto Bacó-Bagué sits down with Rob C. Bolt (Lead Mentor at CDTIE) to explore how tech executive agility, Design Thinking, and corporate-public partnerships can reshape the future of education.What You’ll Learn in This Episode: • The Sabbatical Shift: Why Rob paused a lucrative tech career to become a middle school teacher. • The $56M Oracle Deal: How d.Tech became the first public high school on a Fortune 500 campus. • Design Thinking in Action: Teaching students empathy and problem-solving over rote memorization. • The Puerto Rico Mission: Adapting California innovation models to Caribbean reality through CDTIE. • The Policy Fix: The single educational component Rob would dismantle and redesign today.Guest: Rob C Bolt Host & Executive Producer: Alberto Bacó-Bagué Executive Producer: Jafet Santiago General Producer: Leroy Santiago Editor: Alejandro Colón Bookings: Magda Segarra