Guild Education
also referred to as: guild
8 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2015 by Nick Beim · said 40 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Rachel Carlson (22), Harry Stebbings (14), Wesley Chan (2), Katherine Boyle (2)
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2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2020 4 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Guild Education, oldest first
Aug 19, 2015 positive
Beim: A $60B pipeline of successful female-founded tech companies exists
“There is a pipeline, and I've actually done some research on this and wrote a blog on it, it's about a sixty billion dollar pipeline of very successful female-founded companies, including Epic Systems, Theranos, Eventbrite, Howes, Guild, many others.”
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Carlson: Employees trust employers over universities regarding future work skills
“So our data tells us that our students today trust their CEOs and their companies, and we work primarily with fortune 1000 employee bases. They trust their companies more about the future of work and the skills they need to acquire. Then they trust either the …”
Oct 11, 2019 negative
Carlson: Direct-to-consumer higher ed struggles with rising Google and Facebook CAC
“Our data shows that schools that are trying to acquire students in a B to C format today are struggling across the board, and I actually think while Lambda's newer to the game, you look at some of the older coding boot camps, they are also struggling as they'r…”
Oct 11, 2019
Carlson: Hire top executives before getting dogmatic about specific roles or titles
“So I think it's the long-term relationship nurturing with the smartest people you can find, and then making sure you don't get dogmatic about role and title, but instead get the very best people on the bus, and then figure out what role and what teams they sho…”
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Carlson: Founders must live near employees and customers, not capital
“So I think that that's not a great idea. I think there are, and I'll be controversial about it, I guess. I think there are three groups of people you can live near. You can live near your employees, you can live near your customers, or you can live near your c…”
Oct 11, 2019 positive
Carlson: Guild Education ties its revenue entirely to ongoing student success
“Instead of getting paid by either of those entities up front, we want to get paid term over term as the students succeed. And so we've actually put all of our revenue at risk and said, we only want to get paid when the student is succeeding in school.”
Oct 11, 2019 negative
Carlson: Splitting tech and operational teams in different cities is "bananas"
“And so the starting advice was keep your leadership and your tech team in San Francisco and have everybody else go somewhere else more affordable. But I thought that was bananas because I needed our product team to be constantly working with our coaches to bui…”