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“From a governmental status, I'm sure the budget is going to be a wreck for a while. There is a possibility San Francisco goes bankrupt.”

“By the time the student's graduating from university, the Lambda School student has three years of experience and has paid Lambda School off and is a quarter million dollars ahead, at least, of the university grad.”

“That unemployment is an optimization problem that will be solved in the next 20 years.”

“I think because of coronavirus, there is now enough of an impetus that it won't be obvious that you should go to San Francisco or Palo Alto anymore, and because of that, I think it will change permanently, and I think more will move to the cloud.”

“We hold pretty sacred our ten-year goal at Lambda School of Increasing our student incomes over the next 10 years, so by 2030, by ten billion a year annually.”

“Now we're graduating, you know, more than 85% of students that start day one, and a lot of the dropout is because of reasons outside of our control.”

“Pretty soon you can underwrite the likelihood that a person will be a successful software engineer before they've paid a dollar.”

“Five years from now, we're probably half a million students a year.”

“There are a lot of people who know a lot about education. There are a lot of people who have Built billion dollar companies and taken technology companies public. I think John Danner and Reed Hastings are basically the only people who are both at the same time…”

“Like the minute they start applying, they get interviews, they get hired, they get a six-figure job, and it's like, what were we waiting for, right?”

“So you know, we're not working on it right, right now, but don't be surprised if you hear by the end of this year, an announcement that Lambda nursing is going live and we're launching a nursing school”

“Our students who are great engineers are generally speaking more diverse than Stanford would be.”

“I think the best high growth companies are still going to be built in Silicon Valley for right now, or at least they'll have an executive team in Silicon Valley.”

“We had a series A close, all the docs were done, had this big billionaire investor who was leading the round, and he just called me, like, on December 23rd and said, hey, I'm not going to send a wire, and that was the end of that company.”

“We were profitable by any definition.”

“Google has in the past spent a hundred million dollars to retain Sundar and stuff like that.”

“We didn't have a pitch deck for a series B.”

“So we sent out an email, you know, making it six months long, and we're teaching computer science because we thought that's something that code bootcamps were lacking, and it was going to be completely free until you get a job, basically our model today, and t…”

“So we're, I think as a school, we're less than half white, which is not the traditional makeup of a code school by any stretch of the imagination.”

“50% of the people that bought the book ever downloaded it, even.”

“And we found that of those companies that we brought in, they would stay, they would interview students, and a third of those interviews ended up being hires.”

“I bought a two-door Honda Civic, and I drove out to Silicon Valley, and I slept on the streets of Palo Alto for about three months.”

“And I emailed everybody who had subscribed to my blog and said, alright, we're launching this Kickstarter, and I'm gonna finish up this book, and the Kickstarter did something like a 120,000 dollars in sales.”