Ryan Carson
Founder & CEO, Untangle. On 3 shows, 5 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ryan Carson is the founder and former CEO of online coding school Treehouse, which educated over one million students before its acquisition in 2021. He currently runs Untangle, an AI legal assistant for family law practices, and teaches autonomous multi-agent software engineering workflows.
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Carson: Autonomous coding agents require built-in automated feedback mechanisms
“This is one of the big unlocks with Ralph or any kind of flow like this is that the agent needs to have a feedback mechanism so that it knows if what it's doing is correct.”
Carson: Ralph agent codebase is open-source and publicly downloadable
“And again, this is all open source and we're going to have all these notes all these links in the notes. And so you could literally take this Ralph public repo I have, download it, and use it.”
Carson: Typical Ralph AI agent cycle takes 10 iterations and costs $30
“The typical Ralph cycle is probably 10 iterations. So you're looking at maybe 30 bucks.”
Carson: Coding Agents Need Dedicated Tools to Test Browser Front-Ends
“Dev browser use this because what this does is this allows AMP or cloud code to actually use your browser and test, and your user stories that involve front-end code remember that the agent needs to be able to test that, and testing browser is hard for agents,…”
Treehouse has raised no additional capital since its $13 million round
“Zero dollars. I'm proud to say.”
Treehouse B2B revenue will surpass consumer revenue in 2019 or 2020
“We're essentially not focusing on our consumer business and we're focusing on our B to B and the B to B revenue will cross that in 19 or 20.”
Treehouse is not generating enough cash to execute share buybacks
“We could. So we're not throwing off enough cash to do that right now.”
Carson: Basecamp has no outside shareholders besides Jeff Bezos' 5% stake
“They, they're a super private company. They don't have actually any shareholders other than I think Jeff Bezos owns five percent.”
Carson: Treehouse enterprise clients include Nike, Mailchimp, InVision, and Chegg
“MailChimp already is looking for a second class of talent. So these are some of our clients already MailChimp, Envision, Nike, Acquia, Chegg, Mindbody”
Carson personally manages a $2.7M enterprise sales pipeline
“I've got at least 2.7 million dollars in the pipeline right now, myself.”
Treehouse has walked away from multiple acquisition talks
“We've gone through a number of acquisition talks and decide not to do them.”
Treehouse is currently profitable and throwing off cash
“At the moment we're having so much fun and like changing lives right now and throwing off cash.”
Carson: Treehouse takes adults from zero to job-ready in about six months
“We teach adults how to go from zero to job ready, a hundred percent online in about six months.”
Treehouse sells to over 600 businesses including Fortune 100 clients
“So we sell to over 600 businesses have huge clients that are fortune 100.”
Treehouse bootstrapped to ramen profitability in three weeks on under $100K
“So we bootstrapped it. So the idea was let's literally use cashflow from the events business. And we boot that business up with, I think it's like 50 to a hundred grand. We were ramen profitable within three, I think three weeks.”
Carson: Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp Failed While Flatiron Was Acquired
“So we just saw so iron yard went out of business. Deb bootcamp went out of business. Flatiron just got acquired.”
Carson: Jeff Huntley conceived the Ralph AI agent framework
“A friend of mine named Jeff Huntley thought up this idea called Ralph.”
Carson Dictates Feature Ideas via Whisperflow to Generate PRDs
“So what I do is I fire up AMP and I basically start talking. I use Whisperflow. Love it. And I basically say, okay, I want to build this feature and this is all the stuff it should do. And I just talk for often like 2:03 minutes.”
Carson details Treehouse subscription tiers at $25 and $199 per month
“So it starts at 25 bucks a month, a free seven day trial. If you love it, then upgrade to paid, and then we have a more expensive model if you are really wanting to push hard and go deeper, and that's called our tech degree, and that's a 199 bucks a month, and…”
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Untangle | 2 | 34 | 80% 4/5 | full record on Top Founders → |
 STARTUP IDEASLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Untangle | 2 | 30 | 100% 1/1 | full record on the Startup Ideas Podcast → |
| MIXERGYLEDGER | Founder & CEO, Untangle | 1 | 10 | — | full record on Mixergy → |