Aaron Rasmussen


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

Early life

During a chemistry class in high school, Aaron 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.

Career

Aaron co-founded the online education platform MasterClass with David Rogier in 2012, and was responsible for its style and production processes.
In 2018, Aaron founded Outlier.org, a university-level education platform that allows students to take online classes for college credit.