Puri: On Deck is an unbundled, digital modern business school
Shaan Puri · How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183 · May 20, 2021 · at 17:48
Sean Puri and Sam Parr are discussing online education and cohort-based programs, specifically debating the business model of On Deck (co-founded by Erik Matthew Tornberg).
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“OnDeck is basically like a modern day business school. So why do people go to business school? People go to business school because they want to build a network. They want to maybe learn about business and they're looking to kind of like pivot their career in a different direction, right? They were doing one job. They want to go to the next job. They don't know what it is. They want to change industries, change roles, change whatever, change careers. So business school is this great pivot point to do that. So what OnDeck did was they sort of made an unbundled and digital version of that.”
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