David Rogier

David grew up in Los Angeles, California where he became known for two things: entrepreneurship (he sold his first company, an Internet search engine, while still in middle school), and asking too many questions in class.

At Washington University in St. Louis, David majored in Political Science and Political Economy, and produced a popular interview show on a college network called 23 Minutes (although it often ran longer).

David was recruited by British retailer Tesco to launch their first stores in the U.S., and worked in supply chain management where he focused on increasing the flow of healthy food to lower income neighborhoods. After Tesco, David attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he met renowned tech investor Michael Dearing (Harrison Metal), whom he went to work for after graduation.

David decided what he really wanted to do was rekindle his two favorite pastimes from his youth: entrepreneurship and question-asking, by starting MasterClass (Harrison Metal became his first investor).

As Co-Founder and CEO, David is responsible for two important things: starting the business and asking the most important question to potential masters, “do you want to teach?”.