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Lambda School

15 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2019 by Karn Saroya · said 20 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Everything said about Lambda School, oldest first

Feb 27, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Saroya discloses being an early investor in Lambda School
“One of the folks, the first folks I did it for was Austin at Lambda School. And I ended up being like one of the first investors. It gave me the opportunity to be one of the first investors in Lambda School too.”
Karn Saroya Feb 27, 2019 ▶ 31:56 Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allred: Lambda School's top engineers are more diverse than Stanford students
“Our students who are great engineers are generally speaking more diverse than Stanford would be.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 37:06 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Allred: Lambda School graduates more than 85% of its starting students
“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.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 15:22 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Allred: Lambda School's student body is less than 50% white
“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.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 36:37 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Allred: Lambda School is testing living stipends for students
“We have experiments running where we pay people living stipends. That will be expanding greatly. We'll be announcing something in the near future along those lines in concert with a few other tech leaders here in the valley.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 1:58 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allred: Lambda School grads are financially $250K ahead of university peers
“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.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 8:52 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Allred: Lambda School will eventually operate as a talent agency
“The future we're going to look a lot like a talent agency basically for software engineers and designers and whatever else.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 11:38 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Allred: Lambda School may launch a nursing school by late 2019
“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”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 31:36 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Allred: Lambda School is fundamentally a vocational trade school
“So we are, yeah, we are entirely Vocational we're a trade school basically, and we want to help you make as much money as you can.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 12:58 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allred: Lambda School was already profitable prior to joining Y Combinator
“We were profitable by any definition.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 17:26 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 negative
Opinion
Allred: Debt-funded liberal arts degrees are impractical for mid-career switchers
“The prospect of, let's take out 50,000 dollars of loans to study Shakespeare is not a bad thing per se, but probably not the right thing at the right time.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 12:49 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019
Disclosure
Allred: Lambda School is currently hiring 37 interview sourcers
“We are hiring right now, 37 interview sourcers.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 11:17 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Allred: ML will soon predict candidate software engineering success before tuition
“Pretty soon you can underwrite the likelihood that a person will be a successful software engineer before they've paid a dollar.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 34:52 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Allred: Lambda School grads get six-figure job offers immediately upon applying
“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?”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 1:23 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
Apr 3, 2019 neutral
Insight
Allred: Software engineers need C, but shouldn't start with memory management
“Like, you do need to know how to write C to be a good engineer. You do need to know how memory management works, but maybe let's not start with memory management as like an entry level point to software engineering.”
Austen Allred Apr 3, 2019 ▶ 47:13 A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
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