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AI is becoming the biggest force multiplier for human talent in history. Austen Allred shares how Gauntlet AI is reimagining engineering education for this new reality and why Austin's is the perfect place to build this ambitious program. This is was quick turnaround episode as Gauntlet AI applications close January 4th (application link below). We also go deeper on the 2nd and 3rd order effects of this transformation on engineering, learning, kids, and Austin. Episode HighlightsWhat is Gauntlet AI?How AI transforms the engineering craft Building $100M engineers Breaking traditional talent signals & building new ones AI's impact on adaptive learning Developing spiky points of view Austin's emergence as an edtech hubWhat's Next Austin?"Austin just found a home for all of the people who think a little bit differently and see the world a little bit differently...And historically, if there's a place where all of the independent thinking vagabonds go with a lot of ambition, that's going to be a really cool place, and that's a place you want to be."Gauntlet AIAusten Allred: X/Twitter, LinkedIn -------------------Austin Next Links: Website, X/Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn

Austin Allred, founder of BloomTech, discusses the concept of income share agreements and how his company is revolutionizing education. He also talks about the importance of AI in their curriculum and the challenges of parenting in the digital age. Austin shares his personal journey, including living out of his car and eventually founding a successful company. In this conversation, Austen Allred discusses the importance of immersive learning and the limitations of traditional education. He shares his experience of learning Russian and how being in the middle of the most exciting thing can accelerate learning. Austen also talks about the flaws in the education system and the need for more individualized and practical learning methods. He highlights the power of problem-solving and the importance of teaching children to learn by doing. Austen reflects on his time at Y Combinator and the intense focus and productivity that can be achieved in a short amount of time. He also mentions some companies he is excited about, including Perplexity and Medallion. Austen shares a core memory of his daughter's selflessness during a challenging time and discusses the legacy he wants to leave for his family. Follow Austen on X: https://x.com/Austen And check out BloomTech: https://www.bloomtech.com/

College is absurdly expensive. Can a radical new model change that? With Austen Allred, Co-Founder & CEO of BloomTech. Since filming, Lambda School has rebranded to Bloom Institute of Technology. Up next ►► You Don't Need College to Get a College Education, with Salman Khan | Big Think   • You Don't Need College to Get a Colle...   When Austen Allred was going to high school, nobody said anything other than: "Go to the best college you can, pay whatever it costs, study what you love. ‘Because as long as you graduate from college, you will be set for the rest of your life." After having been preached this for decades, Austen's generation was one of the first to realize that that's fundamentally not true. Today, we're getting to a point where people are rethinking college education, and they're weighing the costs and the benefits. There are a number of schools that if you just look at the outcomes of the students that attend relative to the debt that those students incur, most students would have been better off not attending that school in the first place. This is what sparked Austen's idea for Lambda School - a radical new model to college education. Lambda School is entirely online, and they train people to be software engineers and data scientists for no upfront tuition in exchange for a piece of what you'll make later. At Lambda School, you don't pay until you're hired. Since filming, Lambda School has rebranded to Bloom Institute of Technology. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- About Austen Allred: Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen's start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School's rapid growth.Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda. Austen's disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Member Get exclusive access to full interviews, early access to new releases, Big Think merch and more ►Get Big Think+ for Business Guide, inspire and accelerate leaders at all levels of your company with the biggest minds in business ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Money isn't everything: Why a meaningful mission is key for startup success, with Austen Allred. Money is important for startups and in venture capital, but having a lot of it doesn't make a company successful. What is actually in short supply is great people, those who can execute on ideas. To find and retain the best people requires not only paying them well, but ensuring that they are working on something that is impactful or meaningful to them. Up next ►► The entrepreneur's guide to success   • The entrepreneur's guide to success |...   -------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Austen Allred: Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen's start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School's rapid growth.Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda. Austen's disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. Go Deeper with Big Think: ►Become a Big Think Member Get exclusive access to full interviews, early access to new releases, Big Think merch and more ►Get Big Think+ for Business Guide, inspire and accelerate leaders at all levels of your company with the biggest minds in business Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Economics Roundup #2, published by Zvi on July 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Previously: Economics Roundup #1 Let's take advantage of the normality while we have it. In all senses. Insane Tax Proposals There is Trump's proposal to replace income taxes with tariffs, but he is not alone. So here is your periodic reminder, since this is not actually new at core: Biden's proposed budgets include completely insane tax regimes that would cripple our economic dynamism and growth if enacted. As in for high net worth individuals, taking unrealized capital gains at 25% and realized capital gains, such as those you are forced to take to pay your unrealized capital gains tax, at 44.6% plus state taxes. Austen Allred explains how this plausibly destroys the entire startup ecosystem. Which I know is confusing because in other contexts he also talks about how other laws (such as SB 1047) that would in no way apply to startups would also destroy the startup ecosystem. But in this case he is right. Austen Allred: It's difficult to describe how insane a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains is. Not a one-time 25% hit. It's compounding, annually taking 25% of every dollar of potential increase before it can grow. Not an exaggeration to say it could single-handedly crush the economy. An example to show how insane this is: You're a founder and you start a company. You own… let's say 30% of it. Everything is booming, you raise a round that values the company at at $500 million. You now personally owe $37.5 million in taxes. This year. In cash. Now there are investors who want to invest in the company, but you can't just raise $37.5 million in cash overnight. So what happens? Well, you simply decide not to have a company worth a few hundred million dollars. Oh well, that's only a handful of companies right? Well, as an investor, the only way the entire ecosystem works is if a few companies become worth hundreds of millions. Without that, venture capital no longer works. Investment is gone. Y Combinator no longer works. No more funding, mass layoffs, companies shutting down crushes the revenue of those that are still around. Economic armageddon. We've seen how these spirals work, and it's really bad for everyone. Just because bad policy only targets rich people doesn't mean it can't kill the economy or make it good policy. I do think they are attempting to deal with this via another idea he thought was crazy, the 'nine annual payments' for the first year's tax and 'five annual payments' for the subsequent tax. So the theory would be that the first year you 'only' owe 3.5%. Then the second year you owe another 3.5% of the old gain and 5% of the next year's gain. That is less horrendous, but still super horrendous, especially if the taxes do not go away if the asset values subsequently decline, risking putting you into infinite debt. This is only the beginning. They are even worse than Warren's proposed wealth taxes, because the acute effects and forcing function here are so bad. At the time this was far worse than the various stupid and destructive economic policies Trump was proposing, although he has recently stepped it up to the point where that is unclear. The good news is that these policies are for now complete political non-starters. Never will a single Republican vote for this, and many Democrats know better. I would like to think the same thing in reverse, as well. Also, this is probably unconstitutional in the actually-thrown-out-by-SCOTUS sense, not only in the violates-the-literal-constitution sense. But yes, it is rather terrifying what would happen if they had the kind of majorities that could enact things like this. On either side. Why didn't the super high taxes in the 1950s kill growth? Taxes for most people were not actually that high, the super-high marginal rates like 91% kicked in...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Economics Roundup #2, published by Zvi on July 3, 2024 on LessWrong. Previously: Economics Roundup #1 Let's take advantage of the normality while we have it. In all senses. Insane Tax Proposals There is Trump's proposal to replace income taxes with tariffs, but he is not alone. So here is your periodic reminder, since this is not actually new at core: Biden's proposed budgets include completely insane tax regimes that would cripple our economic dynamism and growth if enacted. As in for high net worth individuals, taking unrealized capital gains at 25% and realized capital gains, such as those you are forced to take to pay your unrealized capital gains tax, at 44.6% plus state taxes. Austen Allred explains how this plausibly destroys the entire startup ecosystem. Which I know is confusing because in other contexts he also talks about how other laws (such as SB 1047) that would in no way apply to startups would also destroy the startup ecosystem. But in this case he is right. Austen Allred: It's difficult to describe how insane a 25% tax on unrealized capital gains is. Not a one-time 25% hit. It's compounding, annually taking 25% of every dollar of potential increase before it can grow. Not an exaggeration to say it could single-handedly crush the economy. An example to show how insane this is: You're a founder and you start a company. You own… let's say 30% of it. Everything is booming, you raise a round that values the company at at $500 million. You now personally owe $37.5 million in taxes. This year. In cash. Now there are investors who want to invest in the company, but you can't just raise $37.5 million in cash overnight. So what happens? Well, you simply decide not to have a company worth a few hundred million dollars. Oh well, that's only a handful of companies right? Well, as an investor, the only way the entire ecosystem works is if a few companies become worth hundreds of millions. Without that, venture capital no longer works. Investment is gone. Y Combinator no longer works. No more funding, mass layoffs, companies shutting down crushes the revenue of those that are still around. Economic armageddon. We've seen how these spirals work, and it's really bad for everyone. Just because bad policy only targets rich people doesn't mean it can't kill the economy or make it good policy. I do think they are attempting to deal with this via another idea he thought was crazy, the 'nine annual payments' for the first year's tax and 'five annual payments' for the subsequent tax. So the theory would be that the first year you 'only' owe 3.5%. Then the second year you owe another 3.5% of the old gain and 5% of the next year's gain. That is less horrendous, but still super horrendous, especially if the taxes do not go away if the asset values subsequently decline, risking putting you into infinite debt. This is only the beginning. They are even worse than Warren's proposed wealth taxes, because the acute effects and forcing function here are so bad. At the time this was far worse than the various stupid and destructive economic policies Trump was proposing, although he has recently stepped it up to the point where that is unclear. The good news is that these policies are for now complete political non-starters. Never will a single Republican vote for this, and many Democrats know better. I would like to think the same thing in reverse, as well. Also, this is probably unconstitutional in the actually-thrown-out-by-SCOTUS sense, not only in the violates-the-literal-constitution sense. But yes, it is rather terrifying what would happen if they had the kind of majorities that could enact things like this. On either side. Why didn't the super high taxes in the 1950s kill growth? Taxes for most people were not actually that high, the super-high marginal rates like 91% kicked in...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: On Devin, published by Zvi on March 18, 2024 on LessWrong. Introducing Devin Is the era of AI agents writing complex code systems without humans in the loop upon us? Cognition is calling Devin 'the first AI software engineer.' Here is a two minute demo of Devin benchmarking LLM performance. Devin has its own web browser, which it uses to pull up documentation. Devin has its own code editor. Devin has its own command line. Devin uses debugging print statements and uses the log to fix bugs. Devin builds and deploys entire stylized websites without even being directly asked. What could possibly go wrong? Install this on your computer today. Padme. The Real Deal I would by default assume all demos were supremely cherry-picked. My only disagreement with Austen Allred's statement here is that this rule is not new: Austen Allred: New rule: If someone only shows their AI model in tightly controlled demo environments we all assume it's fake and doesn't work well yet But in this case Patrick Collison is a credible source and he says otherwise. Patrick Collison: These aren't just cherrypicked demos. Devin is, in my experience, very impressive in practice. Here we have Mckay Wrigley using it for half an hour. This does not feel like a cherry-picked example, although of course some amount of select is there if only via the publication effect. He is very much a maximum acceleration guy, for whom everything is always great and the future is always bright, so calibrate for that, but still yes this seems like evidence Devin is for real. This article in Bloomberg from Ashlee Vance has further evidence. It is clear that Devin is a quantum leap over known past efforts in terms of its ability to execute complex multi-step tasks, to adapt on the fly, and to fix its mistakes or be adjusted and keep going. For once, when we wonder 'how did they do that, what was the big breakthrough that made this work' the Cognition AI people are doing not only the safe but also the smart thing and they are not talking. They do have at least one series rival, as Magic.ai has raised $100 million from the venture team of Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman to build 'a superhuman software engineer,' including training their own model. The article seems strange interested in where AI is 'a bubble' as opposed to this amazing new technology. This is one of those 'helps until it doesn't situations' in terms of jobs: vanosh: Seeing this is kinda scary. Like there is no way companies won't go for this instead of humans. Should I really have studied HR? Mckay Wrigley: Learn to code! It makes using Devin even more useful. Devin makes coding more valuable, until we hit so many coders that we are coding everything we need to be coding, or the AI no longer needs a coder in order to code. That is going to be a ways off. And once it happens, if you are not a coder, it is reasonable to ask yourself: What are you even doing? Plumbing while hoping for the best will probably not be a great strategy in that world. The Metric Devin can sometimes (13.8% of the time?!) do actual real jobs on Upwork with nothing but a prompt to 'figure it out.' Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity): This is the first demo of any agent, leave alone coding, that seems to cross the threshold of what is human level and works reliably. It also tells us what is possible by combining LLMs and tree search algorithms: you want systems that can try plans, look at results, replan, and iterate till success. Congrats to Cognition Labs! Andres Gomez Sarmiento: Their results are even more impressive you read the fine print. All the other models were guided whereas devin was not. Amazing. Deedy: I know everyone's taking about it, but Devin's 13% on SWE Bench is actually incredible. Just take a look at a sample SWE Bench problem: this is a task for a human! Shout out to Car...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: On Devin, published by Zvi on March 18, 2024 on LessWrong. Introducing Devin Is the era of AI agents writing complex code systems without humans in the loop upon us? Cognition is calling Devin 'the first AI software engineer.' Here is a two minute demo of Devin benchmarking LLM performance. Devin has its own web browser, which it uses to pull up documentation. Devin has its own code editor. Devin has its own command line. Devin uses debugging print statements and uses the log to fix bugs. Devin builds and deploys entire stylized websites without even being directly asked. What could possibly go wrong? Install this on your computer today. Padme. The Real Deal I would by default assume all demos were supremely cherry-picked. My only disagreement with Austen Allred's statement here is that this rule is not new: Austen Allred: New rule: If someone only shows their AI model in tightly controlled demo environments we all assume it's fake and doesn't work well yet But in this case Patrick Collison is a credible source and he says otherwise. Patrick Collison: These aren't just cherrypicked demos. Devin is, in my experience, very impressive in practice. Here we have Mckay Wrigley using it for half an hour. This does not feel like a cherry-picked example, although of course some amount of select is there if only via the publication effect. He is very much a maximum acceleration guy, for whom everything is always great and the future is always bright, so calibrate for that, but still yes this seems like evidence Devin is for real. This article in Bloomberg from Ashlee Vance has further evidence. It is clear that Devin is a quantum leap over known past efforts in terms of its ability to execute complex multi-step tasks, to adapt on the fly, and to fix its mistakes or be adjusted and keep going. For once, when we wonder 'how did they do that, what was the big breakthrough that made this work' the Cognition AI people are doing not only the safe but also the smart thing and they are not talking. They do have at least one series rival, as Magic.ai has raised $100 million from the venture team of Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman to build 'a superhuman software engineer,' including training their own model. The article seems strange interested in where AI is 'a bubble' as opposed to this amazing new technology. This is one of those 'helps until it doesn't situations' in terms of jobs: vanosh: Seeing this is kinda scary. Like there is no way companies won't go for this instead of humans. Should I really have studied HR? Mckay Wrigley: Learn to code! It makes using Devin even more useful. Devin makes coding more valuable, until we hit so many coders that we are coding everything we need to be coding, or the AI no longer needs a coder in order to code. That is going to be a ways off. And once it happens, if you are not a coder, it is reasonable to ask yourself: What are you even doing? Plumbing while hoping for the best will probably not be a great strategy in that world. The Metric Devin can sometimes (13.8% of the time?!) do actual real jobs on Upwork with nothing but a prompt to 'figure it out.' Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity): This is the first demo of any agent, leave alone coding, that seems to cross the threshold of what is human level and works reliably. It also tells us what is possible by combining LLMs and tree search algorithms: you want systems that can try plans, look at results, replan, and iterate till success. Congrats to Cognition Labs! Andres Gomez Sarmiento: Their results are even more impressive you read the fine print. All the other models were guided whereas devin was not. Amazing. Deedy: I know everyone's taking about it, but Devin's 13% on SWE Bench is actually incredible. Just take a look at a sample SWE Bench problem: this is a task for a human! Shout out to Car...

Visit daisychainai.com today and start building your own custom AI tools. In this episode, we kick off with a thought-provoking quote by Austen Allred, highlighting the crucial choice facing desk workers: adapt to AI or face obsolescence. We dive into exciting updates in AI, such as ChatGPT's new voice response capabilities and Midjourney's advancements in gesture recognition, demonstrating significant progress from its early days. We also touch on Midjourney's swift action against Stability AI's data scrape attempt, hinting at the competitive landscape of AI technology. The anticipation builds around Meta's upcoming launch of LLAMA 3 and the buzz around Anthropic 3.0, despite skepticism about its superiority claims over competitors like ChatGPT. The episode takes a critical view of the tech marketing frenzy, emphasizing the importance of choosing the AI tool that best meets individual needs over getting swayed by hype. Furthermore, we explore Claude 3's capabilities, contrasting it with ChatGPT, and encourage listeners to test it themselves. Lastly, we delve into Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, suggesting it reflects deeper tensions within the AI community and the challenges of balancing innovation, profit, and ethics. Join us as we navigate these developments, offering insights into the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence.

Austen Allred is the founder and CEO of the Bloom Institute of Technology (formerly known as Lambda School), a coding bootcamp that's helped thousands of students get a job in tech.      The discussion kicks off with an exploration of Income Share Agreements (ISAs) and how BloomTech has used them as an alternative to student loans. Austen shares insights on the financial incentives and regulatory pressures that have prevented more schools from embracing ISAs, and how the current student loan regime works.   Auren and Austen dive deep on education and discuss different funding models at public and private universities, the decline of apprenticeship, and the structural factors that have caused the cost of education to skyrocket in the last few decades. Austen sheds light on questionable practices of for-profit colleges and the intriguing dynamics of universities acquiring coding bootcamps.As the conversation unfolds, Austen shares insights on how being an investor makes him a better CEO and even delves into intriguing conspiracy theories. The episode wraps up with Austen debunking common management advice and offering unconventional perspectives on micromanagement and employee satisfaction. World of DaaS is brought to you by SafeGraph & Flex Capital. For more episodes, visit safegraph.com/podcasts.You can find Auren Hoffman on X at @auren and Austen Allred at @Austen

Austen is the CEO and founder of BloomTech, an education platform famous for pioneering income sharing agreements instead of charging tuition. His company has forever altered thousands of students' lives for the better, but having a huge positive impact doesn't make actually running and growing a company easy. Host Jesse Genet and co-host Erik Torenberg talk to Austen about navigating legal and regulatory minefields, shifting internal culture amidst layoffs, and mental models for resilience. RECOMMENDED PODCAST: The HR industry is at a crossroads. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact? Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners, Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. Check out the first episode with the architect of Netflix's culture deck Patty McCord. https://link.chtbl.com/hrheretics TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Introducing Austen Allred, CEO of BloomTech (02:48) Setting the scene for BloomTech's pivotal moments (07:42) Sponsor: Pesto.tech (08:21) Layoffs and aftermath (11:08) Resetting internal culture (13:18) Making decisions amidst ambiguity (16:20) Lawsuit, regulations, and company name change (28:28) Compartmentalizing as a CEO (33:20) Mental models for “running into the darkness” (40:27) Companies that execute their PR really well (46:30) Hiring with a selection filter (54:34) Hard Choices Officer TWITTER: @jessegenet (Jesse) @eriktorenberg (Erik) @austen (Austen) @InTheArena_pod SPONSOR: Head to Pesto.tech if you want to hire remote developers today

Links: Austen on Twitter Al on Twitter Bloomtech (Formerly Lambda School) Becoming Trader Joe by Joe Coulombe Rolling.fun Rolling Fun Podcast episodes: Rolling Fun Ep. 1 Rolling Fun Ep. 2 Rolling Fun Ep. 3 Rolling Fun Ep. 4 Creative EA Delegation with Athena on the Podcast Sponsors: Athenago.com MadeByBread.com Topics: (6:29) - Warming up & Austen escaping San Francisco (13:35) - Catching up on Bloomtech's growth (24:34) - Hiring horror stories and strategies (37:02) - A lot of advice is bullshit (50:10) - How to deal with hypergrowth (1:00:05) - Will VR be a real thing? (1:05:43) - AI's early investment in Bloomtech (1:13:32) - Bottlenecks for future growth (1:18:09) - Work/Life… balance? To support the costs of producing this podcast:  >> Buy a copy of the Navalmanack: www.navalmanack.com/  >> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage  >> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun >> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter >> Text the podcast to a friend >> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners

Austen Allred is on a mission to help people level up their skills and incomes, and his startup is helping thousands of them find new roles in tech fields, online. The venture, BloomTech, raised funding from Gigafund, a top-tier financier.

In this interview edition of the Daily Job Hunt, Joel sits down with Austen Allred to discuss the pathway for breaking into tech in 2022. Austen is the founder of online coding bootcamp Bloomtech (formerly Lambda School). Get The Daily Job Hunt sent to your inbox every day as well as the sign-up bonuses at https://careerhackers.com/djh/ Can't get enough? Get private video podcasts, private coaching, and private newsletters with Career Hackers bonus content https://careerhackers.com/#/portal/ In this episode: Moving out to Silicon Valley and sleeping in a car How Bloom Tech has evolved over the years Bloom Tech's unique admissions process Bloom Tech's “job driven” curriculum The path for breaking into tech How to stand out in the job market in 2022 Guest resources: https://www.bloomtech.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/austenallred/ https://www.austenallred.com

Austen Allred, co-founder and CEO of online tech education company BloomTech, has been an investor in more than 100 startups and leader of the company that is redefining the vocational and career training experience. Austen shares his perspective on improving postsecondary education and enabling economic mobility. Austen designed Bloom Institute of Technology to serve people of all backgrounds and help them gain in-demand tech skills via a more direct, lower risk program. This is especially important for those who are underserved by conventional higher education—and who wouldn't otherwise benefit from the opportunities and economic mobility that a well-paying career afford. Learn more about BloomTech at www.bloomtech.com The Disrupt Education Podcast is a proud member of The EdUp Experience Podcast Network #rebelteachernetwork Check out our sponsors below spikeview You are more than a grade and test score. Colleges, internships, jobs, any opportunity needs to see that! Head to www.spikeview.com and build your portfolio for FREE and start heading towards your dreams today! Chase Freedom Credit Card Sign up for a Chase Freedom card today! Earn $200 cash back with Chase Freedom Unlimited or Chase Freedom Flex credit card. I can be rewarded, learn more. https://www.referyourchasecard.com/18a/JH34EQVVJ7 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/disrupt-educ/support

Featuring Austen Allred, CEO Bloom Institute of Technology (fka Lamada School) Connect w/ Austen: LinkedIn and Twitter  Sponsor: Live Podcast Tour Make sure to visit https://www.techtables.com/ and check out the “Upcoming Live Podcast Tours” Show Notes Austen's unique perspectives on moving to the center of the outcome you want The underrated power of creative effort in building a network Is the degree worth the debt? Why Web3 is the new oil field.  Quotes  I often think if you took the amount of work that goes into one class in college and spent that networking, you would outpace the total networking ability of a degree by 10X ~ Austen Allred  We've done partnerships with Amazon for a back-end program and they want to hire as many people as they can... This is 100X that level of demand. No analogies to gold mines or oil fields can quite compare to what we're actually seeing ~ Austen Allred on the present and future of Web3  Working retail and dealing with people is difficult; but those aren't the skills necessarily that are insanely valuable and lucrative. So if you can take that person who has the skills that they do have and layer on another skill set that's highly in demand, then those are actually some of our highest earners coming out ~ Austen Allred  I wish we believed in things more and I wish we strived for things more. And, even knowing that we can be wrong, I think right now it feels to me like cultural skepticism and negativity outweighs almost everything else ~ Austen Allred Want to dive deeper? Check out my episode on TechTables - https://www.techtables.com/ And if you're a CIO or technology leader interested in joining the conversation on TechTables, shoot me an email at joe@techtables.com. I'd love to have you on. Learn more about Joe Toste (me) at https://www.techtables.com/about/ See what episodes I'm creating at https://www.techtables.com/

Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of BloomTech Institute of Technology. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen's start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of BloomTech's rapid growth. Before founding BloomTech, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build BloomTech. Austen's disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids. You can find him on Twitter @Austen.   11:03 "Since we are promising (at least implicitly) an outcome, what if we guaranteed that?" - Austen Allred 13:12 "Instead of using an income share agreement, we created something called the "outcomes based loan." - Austen Allred 14:21 "It's also about where you're placing people." - Brian Keith 15:20 "A student should have a job offer by the end of this hiring day." - Austen Allred 16:48 "Why shouldn't you get a job in a day?" - Brian Keith 17:52 "It ends up with the same great job... you just kind of go in through the side door instead of the front door. - Austen Allred 21:21 "It's a broken system." - Austen Allred

In the third episode of Radio Free Zion, Conor and Austen discuss Elizabeth Holmes' dog, 'unknown knowns', politics as religion, Carl Jung, Fiddler on the Roof, and maintaining perspective when your means grow faster than anticipated. Now on YouTube!

Schools are driven to give lectures and homework. But the reality is you actually learn by building stuff. The lecture is there but vaguely useful. You learn the exact amount as you spend fingers on the keyboard – writing code. If you're not fingers on the keyboard writing code whatever you do is going to round to zero. This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with entrepreneur Austen Allred (@Austen). Austen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Bloom Institute of Technology (previously Lambda School). In this conversation, they discuss how Bloom's way of approaching education is different than traditional colleges, Income Share Agreements vs Outcome-Based Loans, the thought process behind building Bloom Tech, and where they're headed. Find the show notes of the episode here - https://www.creators.show Follow our host, Sachit Gupta on Twitter and sign up for the Creators Collective Newsletter. Do you want to learn how to make a living as a creator? Check out the CreatorsMBA. Show Notes: 01:02 - Core insights that drive Bloom 03:01 - How Bloom defines student success 05:39 - Students not paying upfront and creating skin in the game 08:11 - Student Loans vs ISA vs Outcome-based Loan models 15:32 - How hiring companies make education  free for the students 17:37 - The criteria for finding the right applicants 21:41 - Is there a reverse correlation between imposter syndrome and intelligence? 24:05 - Austen's early background 27:23 - How Bloom helps students get disproportionate results 31:39 - Instructional design - not one curriculum for every student but one curriculum for each one 33:14 - The experiential learning and platform 40:32 - The seamless integration of admissions, school, and matchmaking 43:54 - The future of Bloom Tech and managing the quality while scaling

Our guest, Austen Allred, is the Co-Founder & CEO at Bloom Institute of Technology.BloomTech is a Y Combinator from the Summer 2017 batch.Learn more and connect with Austen:Website: www.bloomtech.com/Twitter: mobile.twitter.com/AustenEmail: austen@bloomtech.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/austenallredListen to more episodes here: bit.ly/2STWsETTIMESTAMPS:0:03 - What does Austen do? 8:03 - Income share agreements 15:50 - Optimizing human capital23:02 - How BloomTech acquired their hiring partners 29:32 - Upgrading outcomes through upgrading mindsets37:30 - Growing tensions between politics and tech43:55 - Zero-sum games vs. positive-sum games 52:58 - The dangers of incentive structures + college experiences shifting58:12 - Thoughts on investing + impact from companies 1:04:07 - The world we are moving towards + Web3 1:09:03 - Following up with Austen + where to learn more about BloomTech

Levels' Head of Growth, Ben Grynol, sat down with Austen Allred, CEO of Bloom Institute of Technology, formerly Lambda School, to discuss his approach to career-focused and lower-risk education and how it leads to rewarding jobs. Become a Levels Member – levelshealth.com Learn about Metabolic Health – levelshealth.com/blog Follow Levels on Social – @Levels on Instagram and Twitter

Lambda School, a buzzy coding bootcamp that has landed over $122 million in known venture capital to date, is rebranding to Bloom Institute of Technology, according to a blog post from CEO Austen Allred. The company is also updating its tuition payment options to introduce an outcomes-based loan.

Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School - rebranded to the Bloom Institute of Technology. Lambda School is an online program that helps you break into the tech industry by teaching you how to code - and get your first software engineering job. Lambda is free until you get hired. In this episode, we discuss Austen own story of entrepreneurship and how his early beginnings molded him into who he is today. Homeroom is hosted by Cassius Felicella. Connect with Lambda School (rebranded to Bloom Institute of Technology) Website: https://lambdaschool.com/ Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lambda-school Twitter: https://twitter.com/lambdaschool LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/lambdaschool/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lambdaschool/ We talk to founders and entrepreneurs! We're in the business of learning and want to look at everything startup related. Our hope is to show just how significant this segment of business is to the world, and the things it can accomplish. For all inquiries, please email homeroomtalks@gmail.com.

Austen Allred is the co-founder & CEO of Lambda School: a virtual coding school that is completely free to attend, until its graduates earn at least $50,000/year. Lambda School is betting on its student's success as its success, and has seen its graduates go on to work as developers in Fortune 100 companies and prominent startups including Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs and more.But even prior to founding Lambda School & being accepted into Y Combinator, Austen has had a wealth of interesting experiences. From working for two years as a Mormon missionary in Eastern Ukraine - where every foreigner was viewed as a spy - to dropping out of college, vagabonding around China, blogging while being homeless in Silicon Valley (which eventually led to him securing his first funding & job in the Valley!) & going through 5 rounds of interviews before being accepted onto Y Combinator.We explore all that, including his viral & controversially titled article in 2012, “Successful Entrepreneurs Are Usually Liars” in this STIMY episode. Highlights:3:17 Growing up in a Mormon family6:12 Learning HTML at age of 1110:06 Going on a mission trip in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine15:18 Founding Stubtopia25:27 Dropping out of college29:44 Vagabonding around China31:22 Writing the viral 2012 article, “Successful Entrepreneurs Are Usually Liars”33:49 Blogging while homeless in Silicon Valley (which led to his first job in Silicon Valley & investment for his own startup!)38:24 Noticing the discrepancy between Utah & Silicon Valley in terms of opportunities & pay39:31 How the concept of Lambda School came about51:21 The right time to raise VC money54:58 Getting into Y Combinator59:13 Biggest takeaway from working with Geoff Rolston (now President of Y Combinator) & Daniel Gross1:03:54 Issues surrounding the Income Sharing Agreements (ISA)1:06:47 How COVID-19 has impacted Lambda School

Introducing Radio Free Zion with Austen Allred and Conor White-Sullivan. Topics discussed: The heresy required to discover new things Newton spent 1/3 of his time studying religion, 1/3 studying alchemy, and 1/3 creating Newtonian physics The new tradeoffs introduced with new technology Thanks to our sponsors: Zencastr.com (which we use to create this show!) GoatRental.com (not sure if serious) tiktok.com/thebitcoinfiles

Austen Allred is the founder and CEO of Lambda School, an online coding school that doesn't charge students tuition until they get hired. Growing up Mormon, Austen worked as a missionary and lived out of a car before applying to Y-Combinator. These experiences taught him about resilience, which kept him laser focused on candidate success through media praise and controversy.  Austen's mission to democratize education really resonates with me. In this episode, we discuss moving to the Valley, going through Y-Combinator and being caught in the political tensions surrounding free education. We dive into the concepts of ISAs, the future of education and American Dream as a service. You can follow Austen on his Twitter, and check out Lambda School here.The Quest x Universe Site-Building Contest (until 17th August): The Quest Pod is partnering with Universe App to give away $1000 in cash, plus a chance to pitch me your worst startup ideas (and get roasted ) in a YouTube video! The rules are simple:Come up with the worst startup/product idea ever - the more unethical, inefficient, or useless it is, the better,Download the Universe app and build a basic landing page for your idea. Must clearly state what the product/company is, and its purpose,Follow me on Twitter, and submit your site URL and basic details on the attached entry formKeep an eye on your Twitter DM's - I'll contact you if you win. The entry form is available here. Enjoyed this episode? The incredible stories on this podcast are made possible by our sponsors, check them out to support The Quest Pod:Universe | The best mobile command centre for building your online business and content.Cashapp | Spend, save, invest in stocks and cryptocurrency easily 

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Lambda School, an online coding school that invests in the students by offering free tuition. Founded in 2017, the Lambda School is currently helping graduates land jobs at Fortune 500 companies to some of the top startups globally.Austen was formerly the co-founder of Grasswire and co-author of the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce. Austen's ideas on the future of work have been featured on TechCrunch, WIRED, The Harvard Business Review & more.

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The new American dream is underway. The current US educational industrial complex is not serving young people anymore, and entrepreneurs outside the system are creating new alternatives. Austen Allred, Co-Founder/CEO of Lambda School earned this perspective by dropping out of college, setting his own path, and now building a successful company and movement to change education in our country. Austen sees our educational past, present, and future in ways few others do. In this conversation, James Currier (NFX) and Austen break down traditional and contrarian thinking on how we are educated, challenging what has gone unquestioned for decades: - The Psychology of Traditional College: Why “Normal is a hell of a drug” - Faulty Mechanics: The problem with America’s “Single Model” education system - The New American Dream: How “permissionless learning” unlocks opportunity - & 2 Trends to Watch Read the NFX Essay here - https://www.nfx.com/post/the-new-american-dream/

Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. It is an online platform that trains you remotely to become a web developer or a data scientist. The user pays no tuition until hired. Austen’s start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator (YC), the famous San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School’s rapid growth. Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda. In this interview, co-hosts Tiger and Arsh interview Austen about Lambda School’s business model, his entrepreneurship journey, the future of higher education and credentialism, the powerful influence of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and whether it’s become less prestigious than before, how Austen got involved in angel investing, the stellar rise of Clubhouse, and many other topics in tech and business. We dig into the details of Lambda School’s operations and philosophy with Austen: Who ends up studying with Lambda? What is the selection process? What is the common trajectory of Lambda graduates? Could Lambda School’s educational model work in fields outside of computer science? From the perspective of Princeton students, Tiger and Arsh also ask Austen’s thoughts on higher education and credentialism. A liberal arts education is often seen as valuable in the sense that it provides students with many useful assets to enter the workforce with: skills and knowledge, a degree or diploma, and opportunities to network and become involved in their field before graduation. However, companies like Google are now giving accreditation for people who take their software engineering and computer science courses. Tech companies seem to be putting higher value on having particular skills, not on having the broad knowledge of a liberal arts education. Is that the future trend? Where it will matter less and less whether someone went to Princeton or some other Ivy League school? Or will it actually matter more since liberal arts education will become rarer? Austen is a seasoned entrepreneur and well-connected in the Silicon Valley community. Since Austen is an alumnus of YC, we ask him whether he thinks YC’s prestige and quality have come down over the years as it is now accepting hundreds, instead of just dozens, of companies into its incubator programs every year. It seems unrealistic to expect that there would be hundreds of high-quality startups every year, so is YC simply doing “spray and pray” rather than being actually selective? Does it still function as a true testament to the quality of a startup, or has it more become a place that could give startups more exposure to the VC community but actually adds little value to the companies themselves? Austen is an early investor of Clubhouse, an audio-only social media app that has recently become increasingly popular amongst people in tech. Austen believes that Clubhouse could easily become a $100 billion company. Tiger, however, is not a fan of Clubhouse and believes that it provides a less thoughtful alternative to podcasts and simply adds more noise to the discourse. They debate the growth potential and future possibilities of Clubhouse. Last but not least, Austen talks about how he got into angel investing and why the vast majority of Americans have missed out on the tremendous wealth creation that has mostly concentrated in Silicon Valley and taken advantage of by VCs in the past few decades. How could we democratize access to the private market boom? Is such democratization risky or constructive to building a more egalitarian society?

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So yesterday I was on Twitter and I came across a Tweet from Austen Allred, the CEO of Lambda School. Let me describe the Tweet to you.In the picture of the Tweet, there are two kids. One is in the background using a sponge to clean the shower, the other is in the foreground, elbow deep with a scrub, cleaning that toilet. And I mean this kid is really going for it, cleaning the toilet with purpose and honor.And the Tweet reads: “The kids are fighting over who gets to clean the toilet.”No freaking way I thought. This guy is claiming that he didn't have to bribe or punish his kids into cleaning the toilet. I mean, I'd believe it if it was like making their bed, folding the laundry, or tidying up their toys… but the toilet? How is this possible?On today's episode, we explore how to intrinsically motivate your kids. Not through punishment or through bribes, but to get them to do things because they're proud to do it.Show notes:Proof showing my daughter scrubbing that toilet cleanThe Tweet that inspired this episodeThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe Most Important Life Lesson from Tom SawyerThank you for joining me today on Dad Smarter Not Harder.I want your feedback, questions, anything really. I just want to talk to you and the best way to do it is by shooting me a tweet at @junloayza.If you found this episode of Dad Smarter Not Harder valuable, then I ask you to please pay-it-forward by forwarding this episode to one other parent. Your recommendation to another parent is the greatest compliment you can give me. Thank you very much.

Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School and one of the smartest entrepreneurs trying to fix education. We talked about Austen's fascination with reading history in the context of business, his deep interest in shareholder letters and internal memos of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Disney, and other great companies, and his thoughts on first principles thinking. He also shared how a Mormon mission he went to at age 19 in Eastern Ukraine has shaped Lambda, how he built his network in silicon valley, and putting 100% of his net worth in Tesla. He put out his bear and bull case for Clubhouse and why he thinks it's a $400 billion company. I thoroughly enjoyed discussing topics like Peloton replacing religion in America, the death of silicon valley, democratizing angel investing, and raising a $30 million fund without even intending to do so. It was a fun conversation. Here are the show notes :) 02:42 - Why I love reading biographies of The Wright Brothers and John D Rockefeller 04:56 - Amazon's shareholder letters are the best business writing ever 05:41 - Thinking in first principles can be taught 07:10 - Spending 2 years in Eastern Ukraine at the age of 19 and how that has shaped Lambda School 09:16 - I'm used to a lot less dopamine than most people 11:36 - People are way more open to cold emails than most people assume 12:46 - How I built my network in silicon valley from scratch 15:01 - How the world will look like if Lambda school succeeds 17:05 - Why I put 100% of my net worth in Tesla 18:38 - Clubhouse will be a $400 Billion company 21:06 - Twitter Spaces lacks the magical experience of Clubhouse and why it will fail 23:08 - Lambda school is priced low even though it feels high to a lot of people 25:25 - How I'd grow a podcast really, really fast 26:13 - If I wasn't doing Lambda School, I'd probably work for Roam Research 27:10 - Peloton is replacing religion in America 28:24 - CEO-COO relationship and the common thing among all great silicon valley companies 30:22 - Giving away free services for hyper-growth 31:36 - Why startups are now taking less than $5000 angel investments 34:30 - Silicon valley is dying 37:17 - Raising a $30 million fund without intending to I share all the articles/podcasts/books I consume during researching my guests as well as other stuff I find interesting in the newsletter (https://stealmymarketing.substack.com) You can also follow me on Twitter for similar stuff. My DMs are open (https://twitter.com/AbhishekLpd) Austen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/austen) Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com/) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/intellectual-software/message

Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School. Lambda is one of the leading software engineering bootcamps. In this conversation we touch on bootcamps, universities, early childhood education, optimizing employment, & the power of Twitter. Follow Spencer Kier on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R.

Austen Allred CEO Austen Allred was inspired to co-found Lambda School after spotting the major disconnect between a labor market in need of specialized talent, and the inaccessibility of training programs designed to fill that gap. His solution is a fully remote tech school with Income Share Agreements; rather than pay the Lambda School for training upfront, students pay a portion of their income after they've graduated and secured a job. Lambda School trains people to be software engineers at no up-front cost. Instead of paying tuition, students agree to pay a percentage of their income after they’re employed, and only if they’re making more than $50k per year. If you don’t find a job, or don’t reach that level of income, you’ll never pay a cent. Austen’s disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Connect with Austen on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/austenallred/) Twitter (https://twitter.com/Austen) Subscribe! If you enjoyed the podcast please subscribe and rate it. And of course, share with your friends! Special Guest: Austen Allred.

Austen is co-founder and CEO of Lambda School. Lambda School is an online coding school with an income share agreement (“ISA”) model in which students only pay tuition if and after they get a job. Prior to Lambda School, Austen wrote a book called Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide. He previously worked at LendUp and co-founded Grasswire. [0:10] - The basics of Lambda School [4:00] - Lambda’s use of the ISA business model [10:56] - Austen's experiences growing up with an entrepreneurial spirit [16:15] - Lessons learned from Austen’s religious mission in the Ukraine [23:15] - The importance of discipline and its decline in American culture [31:01] - Benefits of fasting and Austen’s fasting experiences [34:47] - Minimalism for a purpose-driven life [40:24] - Tesla’s greatness and the implications of selling too early [46:49] - The role of technological optimism in our society -- Thank you for listening to Pod of Jake! All shares and reviews are sincerely appreciated! LINKS: Twitter: @blogofjake Website: podofjake.com Blog: blogofjake.com Email: jake@blogofjake.com Call: superpeer.com/jake Support: patreon.com/blogofjake Bitcoin: 3ESGQxrJZmGqd2SifqCUiHPvah1uWtN1Zd Ethereum: blogofjake.eth 0xF89aCC1f8c4FeEAc372997006BfE7c0fdD99F80c Bitcoin Cash: qznma8vxf8kjn4v9phsfkhzd0559gm7yfsx0gkl4sf

Today’s guest is Austen Allred, CEO at Lambda School, the online web development and data science academy that students pay no tuition for until they are hired. In this episode, we talk to Austen about overcoming the challenges that Lambda’s unique payment structure presents, what he is focusing on to optimize the business, and the path he has taken personally to get where he is today. Lambda gets paid retrospectively from their hired students via income shared agreements and Austen shares about what it took to get the school off the ground and keep it afloat when they were earning no money from fees. Next up, we talk about the legal challenges of keeping Lambda School registered with state-specific education regulations across the U.S. From there, we get into some of the things Austen is focusing on to improve Lambda School as a company and a place to learn within, hearing him highlight things like scaling, job placement, repeatable student experience, internal communication, and organizational design. Austen also weighs in on how he is getting better at being a CEO, the value of hiring executives, and where the company is currently at as far as metrics for employees, enrolled students, and successful hires. Wrapping up, we talk to Austen about his experiences of living in a car in his early days and ask him about his favorite business tool and some of the books, companies, and CEOs that inspire him most.    TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:41] Before we jump into today’s interview, please rate, review, and subscribe to the Leveling Up Podcast! [00:48] The idea behind Lambda School and the way it structures fees. [01:47] How the income share agreement (ISA) payment structure at Lambda School works. [03:38] A story about the career success of a Lambda School graduate. [04:38] How Lambda School graduates help market the company. [05:35] The method Austen used to get the ISA model off the ground initially. [07:35] What Austen is doing to embark on the scaling journey with Lambda. [09:12] The pain of keeping Lambda compliant with state-specific education regulations. [11:56] Metrics for the funding Austen has received to keep the ISA model running. [12:09] How Austen and his team are helping students land jobs. [16:07] What led to Austen writing Secret Sauce and how the book is doing. [17:12] Metrics for students, employees, and successful hires at Lambda. [17:50] What Austen is doing to get better at being a CEO. [18:57] The value of hiring executives and how to find proper ones. [21:16] Which areas of the business Austen is optimizing currently. [23:49] Companies and CEOs who inspire Austen. [24:54] The story of how Austen lived in his car and what he learned. [26:36] Austen’s favorite business tools: GitHub and GitLab. [29:00] Why Austen’s favorite business book is The Wright Brothers. [29:26] The best way to find and connect with Austen online.   Resources From The Interview:   Austen Allred on Twitter Lambda School   Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide   Paul Graham Geoff Ralston Tesla SpaceX Amazon Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Stripe GitLab GitHub Rippling Airtable Zapier Roam   Must-read book: The Wright Brothers     Leave Some Feedback:   What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed     Connect with Eric Siu:    Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter    

Austen Allred, CEO and Founder of Lambda School, joins the show to launch Season 2! Lambda School is an online code academy that popularized the income share agreement as an alternative to upfront tuition. Austen and his team raised $74 million from Gigafund in August 2020. We dive into the fintech side of ISAs, the headwinds facing four-year universities, and Austen's long term vision for Lambda and vocational school in the US. Open Roles! Business Operations Manager Infrastructure Engineer Senior Data Analyst Senior Data Scientist Finance Director Instructors of All Kinds https://lambdaschool.com/ Highlights on Twitter

What are the effects of remote work on the current job market? Teaching the next generation of software engineers himself at Lambda School, Austen Allred experiences first hand what it takes to hire the best of the new remote workforce. In this episode, he shares his experience with cultivating the best engineering talent and the flaws in the current recruitment process.Find the full transcript here!

In this episode with Austen we talk: About his mission he went on to Ukraine after leaving BYU To living in his car as he went all in on betting on himself To writing a book to get the seed money to start the Lambda School which is all about helping people transform their financial lives  To his experience with Y Combinator  To managing a business that is getting hundreds of thousands of applicants a year (managing growth can be tricky) To his best and worst money decisions  Austen Allred is the Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen's start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School's rapid growth. Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda. Austen's disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. 

Austen is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School. Austen was born with an entrepreneurial spirit and has been starting businesses since his teenage years. His latest company, Lambda, an online coding 'boot camp', is out to change the way we learn coding, or at least change the financial model of it. Paying nothing upfront to enroll, and then paying a % of your monthly salary, ONLY after you find a job in your field - is substantially better than the current college model that leaves you in hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. This seems to be a no-brainer, for anyone interested in the field. Austen and I covered - Where and how he was brought up How he raised over 100k through Kickstarter to fund his book The future of online learning How Lambda School works Does it pay off to be outspoken? The future of remote work And much more... My Take: Whenever you try to set new trends - you are going to find naysayers. Austen is not immune to this, even though Lambda's online coding boot camp is a game-changer for many. Some in the media have cherry-picked information, to misrepresent the full picture of Lambda. I love risk-takers and game-changers; Austen, and Lambda, are definitely a fine representation of both. Austen's Twitter Comments, requests, sponsorships, or questions, please reach out - roybntz@gmail.com Support The Podcast

Our guest today is Austen Allred, co-founder & CEO of Lambda School, which provides students a computer science education funded by an Income Share Agreement (ISA).  Lambda School recently raised $74M, valuing the company at over $150M. In this episode we discuss the structure of Lambda School's year-long program, the current issues within the education system, and how income sharing agreements work and provide students with an alternative to student loans.  Our local co-host today is Steve Curley, CFA, CIO of WaterOak Advisors and current President of the CFA Society of Orlando. Please enjoy the episode.  Follow the CFA Society of Orlando on Twitter at @CFAOrlandoFL

This episode is brought to you by Trends.co, which is one of the only sources I read to learn about what's going to happen next in the world of business, tech and startups. The community has also given me what I'd call a free-MBA's worth of insights. Get $100 off your subscription to Trends using this link. Today's guest on the EdTech Startup Show is Austen Allred. Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School. A native of Springville, Utah, Austen's start-up journey began in 2017 with him living in his two-door Civic while participating in Y Combinator, a San Francisco-based seed accelerator. This experience became the foundation of Lambda School's rapid growth.  Before founding Lambda School, Austen was the co-founder of media platform GrassWire. He co-authored the growth hacking textbook Secret Sauce, which became a best-seller and provided him the personal seed money to build Lambda. Austen's disruptive ideas on the future of education, the labor market disconnect, and the opportunity of providing opportunity at-scale have been featured in: The Harvard Business Review, The Economist, WIRED, Fast Company, TechCrunch, The New York Times, among others. Austen is fluent in Russian and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids. You can find him on Twitter @Austen.

Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Austen Allred (@Austen) on the pod today. Austen is the founder of Lambda School (@LambdaSchool). In today’s episode you’ll hear: Austen gives background on Lambda School and explains the challenges and opportunities in the education space (1:05) Shaan asks Austen to explain his rise from sleeping in a car in San Francisco to running Lambda School (14:00), Austen talks about how his Mormon mission prepared him for a life in business (20:28), Austen breaks down how colleges make money off of application fees (28:35), The guys talk about the big business of college entrance exams (36:35) Austen pitches his idea of increasing productivity at companies by reducing the slack from employees (47:20), the guys discuss the pros and cons of employee tracking software in the age of COVID and mass remote work (50:33), Shaan asks Austen to predict ways different “Lambda School’s for X” are going to grow into the future (58:00).Thank you to our sponsor Square! Square makes it easy for your business to accept payment, and so much more! Check out this week's sponsor at square.com/go/hustle!Joined our private FB group yet? It's a page where people share each others million dollar ideas or what they're already working on: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ourfirstmillion. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Austen Allred is the Founder & CEO @ Lambda School, the startup that remotely trains people to become a web developer or data scientist and the students pay no tuition until they are hired. Just last month, Lambda's $74M Series C was announced led by Gigafund bringing their total funding to date to over $129M with prior investors including Stripe, Bedrock, GV, Gigafund and GGV to name a few. Prior to founding Lambda, Austen was Senior Manager for Growth @ LendUp and before that co-founded Grasswire. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Austen made his way into startups having slept in a Honda Civic and how he went from homeless to rockstar founder @ Lambda? 2.) How does Austen evaluate his own attitude to risk? How does Austen think about downside protection today? How has this changed over time? How does Austen feel about founders taking secondaries? How does Austen think about his own relationship to money? 3.) Having raised his Series C last month, why did Austen choose the investors he did? How did the round progress? What made Gigafund different to alternate options? What makes the best board members in Austen's mind? What makes the worst? 4.) What have been the most challenging elements for Austen of scaling the team? How does complexity change with time in team scaling? Why did Austen bring in a COO? What did he look for in the role? How does Austen advise others on bringing in a COO? 5.) Why does Austen believe that post-COVID we will never go back to the valley as we knew it? Why does Austen believe the valley represents the biggest potential squandering of wealth in history? How does Austen evaluate the government intervention we have seen? As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

Austen Allred of Lambda School teaches first-time developers how to code…and doesn’t ask for payment until students earn a strong salary. We talked about his past failures and how he nearly didn’t recover from them. Then we shifted to how he came up with Lambda and how it could change all education. Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School which teaches first-time developers how to code. Sponsored bySEMrush – If you’re doing content marketing of any kind, you need to know about SEMrush. Explore 40+ SEMrush tools and reports to find the best solution to your challenges. Find and fix SEO issues, track your daily ranks for any keyword, manage your editorial planning, discover the top content in your niche, and so much more. Mixergy listeners get to try their GURU level for two weeks, no credit card required. Just go to Mixergy.com/SEMrush to start getting insights for your content marketing. Toptal – Toptal is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on demand. Toptal serves thousands of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and innovative startups, delivering expertise and world-class solutions at an unparalleled success rate. With elite freelancers in over 100 countries, Toptal connects the world’s top talent with leading companies in days, not weeks. Plus, every new engagement begins with a no-risk trial period, so clients only pay if satisfied with the work. Get started hiring with Toptal today. More interviews -> https://mixergy.com/moreint Rate this interview -> https://mixergy.com/rateint

Welcome to the first episode of Lockdown With Kumar The future of work is remote and distributed - for some companies it will be a 100% transformation, for some partial. Whatever happens, remote work is here to stay. Featuring the host Abhineet Kumar, The World is Going Remote covers: 0:53 Gratitude 1:54 Why I am loving work from home? 2:22 Hiten Shah's Remote Work report highlights 2:51 Remote Work was there even 10 Years Ago at Citrix 3:20 Two interesting CEO takes on remote work: Austen Allred of Lambda School vs Brent Beshore of Permanent Equity (Tech vs Non-Tech) 6:00 Culture tweaks: Podia hosts a virtual retreat 8:00 Culture tweaks: Apurv from Squad hosted a remote townhall 8:23 With remote work, individuals will write more, and writing well will become the most important skill 8:27 Isolation and lack of social opportunities in remote work 9:37 Pragli and Hallway.Chat try tackling isolation 10:09 Unbundling of Clubhouse to cater to enterprise use cases 10:31 Kavita's tweet on employee visibility and upward mobility impacted in the modern remote workplace 11:23 Transformation of MSFT Teams from Nov 2019 to Mar 2020 12:12 Micromanagers will have a tough time with remote work LOL

Online coding bootcamp Lambda School is the latest startup to announce layoffs, writing in a blog post that it's made the “difficult decision” to cut 19 staff from roles across the company. The eight members of its executive team, including CEO and founder Austen Allred, are also taking a 15% pay cut, it said. Today […]

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Joining me on this special episode of the Backbone is Austen Allred, Co-Founder and CEO of Lambda School - a training program specializing in coding, computer science, and web development, with a revolutionary tuition model that asks graduates to pay once they land a successful job. I chat with Austen about: 1. His journey so far and how it was instrumental in the founding of Lambda School in 2016. 2. Lambda School and what it's all about. How Lambda School challenges traditional the university structure? 3. Employers, credentialing candidates and educating employers to focus on hiring candidates whose experiences and skills best suit them for the job.  4. Some of the financial challenges and risks associated with Lambda School's revenue model and how to raise capital for such a model? (Lambda School has a unique revenue model in that the company does not require students to pay up front for their training. Instead they are taking a bet on the student's career prospects for the first 2 years after they graduate Lambda School, to take a % of their earnings.) 5. Whether Lambda School would consider expanding its offering over time, to other aspects of training such as sales, marketing, and finance? We close things off with a quickfire round: - Your go to online resource for all things startup finance related - Your favourite productivity hack - Tech jargon that makes you cringe - The best advise you've received - One thing you don't leave the office before finishing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/backbone/message