Maybe part of it is seeing education as a massive untapped wallet? There's a reason Teachers Pay Teachers exists and frankly, given the greed of Silicon Valley and existing ED companies, isn't it an environmentally created immune system?
Teachers and administrators have decades of experience at getting treated as targets for culture-war grandstanding. Having a 28yo tech CEO barely older than their students tell them that a cool website will reverse the effects of poverty is probably just a different flavor.