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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.”
Vaillancourt: Howdy should have cut off non-paying elite university pilots sooner
“In retrospect, we should have pulled the plug, like, maybe taken the device out and said, hey, listen, sorry, like, you see the numbers going down. We really love to support you, but we also have a business to run.”
Vaillancourt: Howdy Saw Course Completion Rates Reach 75% to 80%
“And so that wound up, I mean, it varied across courses. So if you like use 95% as a benchmark, we were seeing in cases like 80, 75%.”
Vaillancourt: Howdy could have used LLMs as automated facilitators before shutting down
“I could have pivot now, like right around a year before we shut down the company, we could have integrated large language models into the peer-to-peer sessions to basically be an automated facilitator for these different topics.”
Vaillancourt: Silicon Valley advisors wrongly told Howdy not to charge universities
“We had very smart angels and advisors. You know, I had like the former VP of product at LinkedIn learning and other vets that had been coming, you know, come out of Silicon Valley that basically said, don't charge the schools anything. Like you're effectively …”
Berklee expanded Howdy pilot from three to 70 courses in one month
“So Berkeley school of music is out of Boston, you know, world-class business music school. They piloted us with three courses. It started, they started to see positive Metrics and they went from three to 60, 70 courses in like a span of maybe a month.”