Make School

“I'm now certain that like the majority of people who could be a great software engineer at a really competitive and selective company the majority of those people are not by default autodidacts who could just go to a MOOC and get all the information they need.”

“My co-founder and I are the only young founders in our batch whose company is still alive. So when you look at it from that perspective, you look today, what are the companies from my YC batch that still exist and are still successful? There is, there are zero…”

“What's really special about it is that students don't have to pay tuition unless they get a job.”

“We've been running the income share based program since 2014. So we actually have five years of data, our students getting jobs at Facebook, Google and Tesla and all these great companies.”

“We get financing to cover our cost of educating students So we're the school that actually goes in debt when students enroll. It's kind of a reversal. So normally, you know, you enroll at a college, you go into debt. When you enroll at our college, we go into …”

“So you can actually graduate with a four year bachelor's in two years. If you take our intensive our intensive track.”

“Even though we do let students mix and match if they want to, 90% of our students go full ISA.”

“We've started seeing actually is that other colleges, even big ones are adopting our income share agreements. The largest example is Purdue. The documents that we helped coauthor back in 2014 when we piloted our first college program, which has turned into thi…”

“Our student audience is, is majority students who would otherwise be in college or who are college age. So when people, you know, we just had a prospective student weekend last weekend a hundred students coming in from all over the country, parents coming in f…”

“We want to be preparing our students for a transition into the workplace, and we've realized that the best way to do that is actually to structure their week like a work week.”

“We are actually one of the first colleges to be created under new accreditation rules. So we were accredited this past fall. We offer a real accredited bachelor's degree accredited by the same accreditor that accredits Stanford and UC Berkeley and so on and so…”

“And I can tell you with certainty that there is no university recruiting internship program that I've come across that has dropped Degrees as a requirement in any sort of systematic way.”