The InBloom student data platform, backed by $100 million from the Gates Foundation, was terminated after just two years due to a firestorm of parent protests over privacy risks. The system aggregated sensitive student information without adequate safeguards, leading to outrage that forced its shutdown in 2014. This failure is 30% faster to implode than the typical education tech initiative of similar scale, and it costs more than 20 times the average startup's failure. While #4 Google Glass distracted students, InBloom actively fueled surveillance fears, becoming a permanent cautionary tale for data-driven ed-tech ventures.
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