

22 Oct 2026 · 2m · 2 chapters

The episode contrasts “education vs work,” arguing education should be open and accessible regardless of money, while work is framed as profit-driven collaboration where employees share in project outcomes.
Kata Hagadala is AI Product Manager for Search at AT&T. Host: Tyson Stockton.
Education should be “open source” and not restricted by financial barriers; sharing knowledge improves everyone’s learning and helps businesses find the right talent.
A hypothetical person with fewer financial resources learning “this kind of a thing” and doing extraordinary work; the idea that money-based access “filters out” talent businesses never discover.
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Discussion on the differences between education and work.
“My name is Tyson, and joining me today has been Kata Hagadala, AI Product Manager for Search at AT &T.”
Arguments for making education accessible and open to all.
“Example, hey, I wish I know this kind of a thing.”

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0:41Here's today's host of the Voices of Search podcast, Tyson Stockton. My name is Tyson, and joining me today has been Kata Hagadala, AI Product Manager for Search at AT &T. Today, we're going to be exploring how enterprise SEO teams can turn their own data into deeper understandings of consumer and better search results. Why should education be acceptable for all? Like, what is the difference of how you view education and how you view work?
1:13Venkata Pagadala: Yeah, I think let's start with work. Work is like a business when the businesses get paid in profits and they're using skills in the human time in order to achieve a profit where they're going to share some amount of money to employees. So you together work on a project, make money, share the money. That's good. Time for a one-minute break to hear from our sponsor, Previsible. So you're looking for SEO help. And you got a couple of options. You could start replying to spam from agencies that claim they can get you to rank number one on Google. You can pay an hourly rate for a consultant who will inevitably nickel and dime you with hourly charges.
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3:07Venkata Pagadala: My point of education being open source is because education should never be restricted by money. Example, hey, I wish I know this kind of a thing. because who knows, a passionate person with less financial resources can do extraordinary things. So I firmly believe that sharing would not hurt you. It improves your knowledge because if you make education public, everyone can learn, and the right candidate will be hired by business owners. So if you're locked by the money, you're already filtering it out, the talent which you don't know. Bye.
Paywalled education filters out talent before hiring begins. Venkata Pagadala, AI Product Manager for Search at AT&T, argues that financial barriers to learning hide capable candidates from employers. He defines work as a profit-sharing exchange of human time and skills, and education as a separate good that money should not restrict. He makes the case for open-access education as a talent-sourcing strategy, because a public knowledge base widens the candidate pool and lets business owners hire the right person.
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