A PhD Candidate in Cognitive Science with an MA in Philosophy, Flacks has been imagining, designing and creating platforms since 2002. He implemented a space to allow his classes to collaborate with other classes around the world in 2012, a platform that quickly found thousands of users from many countries. Seeing the great need for such a platform, and noticing how few educational tools actually met teachers’ and students’ needs, he co-founded linkr in 2017.