Lambda School, every mention
38 scenes across 7 shows · ← back to Lambda School
tap a year for its mentions
20VC 49
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 20
the a16z Podcast 4
A Product Market Fit Show 3
Top Founders 2
Founder's Journal 2
Lenny's Podcast 1
every year every show 20VC 49 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 20 the a16z Podcast 4 A Product Market Fit Show 3 Founder's Journal 2 Top Founders 2 Lenny's Podcast 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Lambda School comes up on 20VC, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, the a16z Podcast, A Product Market Fit Show, Founder's Journal
He raised $250K, had thousands of users—but here's what he'd do differently next time. | Darius V... · PMF Show
- ▶ 14:14 Darius Vaillancourt And, you know, we were also benchmarking it to other companies like boot camps that were getting a lot of attention, like Lambda School, for example. 3 times in the scene
Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- ▶ 1:07:43 Marc Andreessen Well, Lambda School is a for-profit, a for-profit version Austin Allred, uh, is doing, and then there's a non-profit version, University of Austin, 3 times in the scene
How Founders Should Be Integrating AI To Their Business
- ▶ 33:31 Jesse Pujji You know, I, I talked about, I think I've talked about this before, but like the original idea was like what I call Lambda School for Growth Marketing. 2 times in the scene
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:24 Harry Stebbings I mean, Lambda. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:34 Adam Grenier So one example, um, is at Lambda School, we implemented a new, like, chat opportunity for our students, and we, we didn't loop in customer service, and customer service had, like, an entirely different chat element.
When to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- ▶ 4:26 Lenny Rachitsky Before that, you're VP of product and marketing at Lambda School.
20VC: Bedrock's Geoff Lewis on Whether VCs Actually Provide Value or Not, Why Bedrock Does Not Have An Ownership Focus and The Difference Between Principles and Rules When Building a Firm or Company
- ▶ 18:53 Harry Stebbings But like Vercel, Lambda, The Athletic, I mean, are they really narrative violations?
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on How To Assess Your Relationship To Risk and Money, Why San Francisco Is A Case Study For The Greatest Squandering of Wealth in History & Why Complexity Increases Exponentially with Scale
- ▶ 0:17 Harry Stebbings Just last month, they announced their seventy-four million dollar Series C, led by Giga Fund, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome back Austin Allred, founder and CEO at Lambda School, the startup that remotely trains people to 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:31 unnamed speaker This is one of the reasons Lambda School has been so successful, is because I understand that so deeply. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:40 unnamed speaker So going back to thinking about upside versus downside, the reason Lambda School is so successful is 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:38 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, in terms of like the cap table itself, you chatted a little bit before about some of the investors in Lambda School, and your early rounds, there are quite a few angels, especially when you look at how many on Twitter claim to… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:44 Harry Stebbings I think of Lambda as one of the kind of category creators in terms of being Twitter-centric in many respects in terms of the early growth and early brand. 5 times in the scene
Prentus Founder Spent $90k on Failed Project Before Launching New Recruiting Tool During COVID
20VC: Sahil Lavingia on Rolling Funds and Their Impact on The Future of Venture, How To Evaluate Market, Team and Product, The Value of Party Rounds & The Pros and Cons of Multi-Stage Funds Investing at Seed
- ▶ 0:32 Harry Stebbings However, most recently, as I mentioned, Sahil's made waves, raising one of the first rolling funds on AngelList, with his being six million dollars per year, and in the past, Sahil has backed the likes of Lambda School, Figma, HelloSign,…
HackerEarth 4.5m Developer Community Breaks $5m Run Rate, 100% Net Retention
- ▶ 2:24 Nathan Latka So would you sort of say this is sort of a combination of like Codecademy plus Lambda School?
20VC: Ashton Kutcher on Early Lessons From Investing in Airbnb and Spotify, Why VC Ownership Requirements Are Becoming More and More Egregious & What Being Good At Product Truly Means
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings West Coast franchises in the new scene of entrance, with a portfolio including the likes of Lambda, Calm, GitLab, Affirm, Bird, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: How Founders Can Gain Leverage in Fundraising Negotiations, The Metrics You Need To Raise Your Series A in Consumer & What We Have To Change About Cap Table Construction with Jana Messerschmidt, Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
- ▶ 0:44 Harry Stebbings Her portfolio includes the likes of Carter, Lambda School, Bird, Ford, and Cameo, just to name a few.
- ▶ 7:04 Jana Messerschmidt And now, nearly five years later, we've invested in more than a hundred companies as a group, and those companies include Bird, Cameo, Gusto, Carta, Airtable, Lambda School, Carrot Fertility, Modern Fertility, Vector Space, and countless…
20VC: How To Build True Human Relationships with VC Pre-Investment, Why Valuation Is Not The Only Term and When To Take Lower Offers & How To Approach Mental Health As A Founder with Jon Dishotsky, Founder & CEO @ Starcity
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings I do also want to say a huge thank you to two fantastic previous guests in the form of Austin at Lambda and Jesse at Lumi for the fantastic intro today.
- ▶ 4:11 Harry Stebbings A huge thank you to Austin at Lambda and Jesse at Lumi for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, John.
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:28 Craig Cannon So, I, I'm curious about, like, there, there's this core insight with Lambda School, which centers around, what, what if we didn't have to charge 10,000 dollars for this, you know, dev school?
- ▶ 11:56 Craig Cannon And the thing that I'm in particular curious about is the way you treat education in the sense of Lambda School is like, hey, this is job training, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:17 Craig Cannon I mean, do you see there are value, there are elements of value in unbundling other aspects and, like, really building that into Lambda School? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:03 Austen Allred And therefore, you know, and it came out to something like Lambda School will be 10 times bigger than it 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:19 Craig Cannon Is it possible that your model could learn in the wrong way and say, only select white dudes for Lambda School? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:12 Austen Allred Um, I mean, I've looked at, Hey, can we just buy a summer camp and run camp Lambda and have a bunch like, that'd be awesome. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:06 Austen Allred Um, we'll, we'll soon be measuring Lambda School's scale by percentage of the overall number of students learning to program every year, um, to give you some context. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:46 Craig Cannon So if, uh, people want to sign up or learn more about Lambda School, where should they go?
20VC: Lambda School Founder, Austen Allred on Why Unemployment Is An Optimisation Problem That Will Be Solved Over The Next 20 Years, Why The Speed and Quality of Decisions Are Not Mutually Exclusive & The 1 Question All Founders Must Ask Themselves Befor
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings I really am a fanboy of this phenomenal founder and mission, and so with that, I'm thrilled to welcome Austin Allred, founder and CEO at Lambda School, a nine-month immersive program that gives you the tools and training you need 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:07 Harry Stebbings I'm so excited for this one, and so I'm thrilled to welcome Austin Orrard, Orred, founder and CEO at Lambda School.
- ▶ 3:37 Harry Stebbings So tell me about your background, Austin, and what gave you the initial idea for Lambda School and really that aha moment?
- ▶ 8:03 unnamed speaker What your life is like from having no money to having just a little bit of money, and that actually impacts a lot of what we do at Lambda School.
- ▶ 8:59 Harry Stebbings Speaking of what VC is like to hear, and before we discuss finding product market fit, obviously a lot of businesses take pre-seed and seed funding in the earliest days, and you said to me before that you were determined to never raise VC… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:39 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, you've been through kind of several rounds of VC, both with Lambda and with your prior company. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:09 unnamed speaker By the time you graduate from Lambda school, that would be really cool. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:28 Harry Stebbings Do you balance family life with running Lambda? 3 times in the scene
What's Next for Education Startups
Cost vs Quality in Edtech – Keith Schacht, Avichal Garg, and Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:36 Geoff Ralston Insight Data, um, Lambda schools, training people to be, um, to be, uh, programmers.