Our mission

We're on a mission to unite humans across the world through knowledge, inspiration, curiosity and friendship. We want to connect people from all backgrounds together, to discover our similarities and our shared passion for every experience life has to offer.

Talent and curiosity are everywhere, and money shouldn't be a barrier to reaching them. Everyone should have access to a great teacher, wherever they're from.

Nothing will ever beat human-to-human learning. We're hard-wired for connection. And in the age of AI, online learning, and exams that say "you're not allowed to fail," we need more than ever to rediscover the pure enjoyment of learning things - sometimes just because we can.

Every lesson through 8Billionminds supports this mission. Thank you for being part of it.

Our team

8Billionminds is run by a small team of current global volunteers, and was previously built by hundreds.

Sam Founder & Lead Organiser Traveller & creator

Dan Back-end Developer Developer, therapist, runner, avid sci-fi and fantasy reader.

Nomena Full-stack Developer Coding, Learning, Reading, Languages, Trail, Music

Joshua Front-end Developer Technical writer, Computer scientiest, Chess fanatic

Mariana QA Lead Breaking things so you don't have to. Teacher at heart, chai and cats.

Izabela Community Building Lead Travel, languages and tacos.

Nika Animator / Illustrator Designer, Animator, Dreadlocks Queen