A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School
Austen Allred is the CEO and cofounder of Lambda School.
https://twitter.com/Austen
https://lambdaschool.com/
Lambda School provides a CS education that's free until you get a job. They were in the Summer 2017 batch of YC.
The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon.
https://twitter.com/craigcannon
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Topics
00:35 - Encouraging people to do something that they're scared to do
4:50 - Where did the insight for Lambda School come from?
6:00 - College vs developer schools
10:00 - Building a network
11:50 - Does Austen see value in a traditional liberal arts education?
14:30 - Steven Klai…
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0:35
Encouraging people to do something that they're scared to do
4:50
Where did the insight for Lambda School come from?
6:00
College vs developer schools
10:00
Building a network
11:50
Does Austen see value in a traditional liberal arts education?
14:30
Steven Klaiber-Noble asks - As competitors begin to copy your model what front
17:30
Why did Austen choose to raise money?
19:40
Fundraising falling through on Austen's first startup
21:10
Moving back to Utah and writing a book about growth
23:00
Why Austen wrote a book
26:00
"Starting a company is by definition saying, I think what I can do is worth mo
27:00
Mispriced human capital
29:55
Other opportunities for Lambda School
32:20
Modeling risk
35:10
David Kofoed Wind asks - When Lambda School is incentivized to take in people
37:25
Will Lambda School ever not be remote?
40:50
Dave Dawson asks - You appear to be on the successful path now, was there a po
43:20
Helping everyone become an autodidact
46:20
Rethinking where to start on an online course
47:45
Dave Dawson asks - What keeps you up at night at this point?
49:20
Dayo Koleowo asks - “I have made remarks I do not agree with” - from Austen's
53:00
Choosing remote work as a core problem to solve i
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