Coding Bootcamps
topic on 6 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
No Priors 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
A Product Market Fit Show 
the a16z Podcast 
20VC
8 statements about Coding Bootcamps, every show
Vaillancourt: Remote bootcamps charged $10K despite degraded student experience
“These companies are still charging the same amount, 10 K for a coding bootcamp or whatever, but the experience is like significantly degraded.”
Grant: Coding bootcamps are among education's best innovations in a decade
“Like I think coding bootcamps have changed so many people's lives. Like I just, I think they are one of the best things that's happened in education in the last 10 years”
Beyang Liu: CS fundamentals will grow in importance in AI era
“My, maybe a bit contrarian hot take here is that CS Fundamentals if anything, are gonna grow in importance. You know, the stuff you learn in the coding bootcamp, maybe that gets, you know, automated away, but the fundamentals of knowing, you know, which data s…”
Jin: Coding bootcamps have not yet produced large venture capital exits
“To date, there haven't been large outcomes in this space, so we're keeping tabs on it, but wondering if there can be a large exit or a large outcome here.”
Coolican: Rapid skill erosion and labor shortages drive coding bootcamp success
“That's why I think coding has found this product market fit around the coding bootcamp. You know, it's got both of those. It's got both your skills erode really, really quickly, or like the domain skills erode really, really quickly, plus there's a huge shorta…”
Coding bootcamps suffer from non-repeat purchases and high search acquisition costs
“The problem with coding bootcamps is it's a one-time purchase. It's not repeated. Customers often search for it in Google, and even if you have the best product, it's hard to make that readily apparent in the consumer's minds.”
SeatGeek prefers PhDs and quant traders over bootcamp data science grads
“The biggest challenge sort of sorting through the data science pool is filtering the people who are sort of very serious quantitative professionals versus folks who did a boot camp. For three months and are now trying to become a data scientist. And there's ab…”
Ravisankar: 90-day bootcamps promising expert status act as a negative signal
“I mean, there are a lot of them who, there are a set of bootcamps who say, you know what, come here, doesn't matter whether you know how to code or not, I'll help you become a great React developer in 90 days. I mean, it's, that's not how it works, right? And …”