Jonas Koblin

Jonas Koblin, born in 1978 in Munich, Germany, received a Waldorf education and briefly played for FC Bayern. After dropping out of highschool, Koblin traveled to India. Age nineteen he then started a nonprofit and a series of charity events. By 2007, Koblin was juggling college and three companies simultaneously. After some commercial success (Madonna became a client), Koblin prioritized personal growth over commercial success and took a step back and completed the Hoffman Process. In 2016, Koblin began producing educational videos aimed at introducing aspiring educators to the social sciences. In 2020, he co-authored a lesson on Active Learning with Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman, and in 2021, the Sprouts channel reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Today, Sprouts Schools' video lessons are available in over ten languages, viewed by millions of students each month, and are integrated into university curricula worldwide. In 2024, Jonas Koblin was awarded for the best open-access education by TREFF–the Education Film Festival in Tromsø, Norway. Besides Sprouts, Koblin also founded Mali, a virtual companion that has helped over hundred thousand new parents through the first 1,000 days of their child's life, and Sprouts Kindergarten, a small school focused on early project-based learning. He lives in Bangkok with his wife and their three children.