Is There an Opportunity to Lower the Placement Rate?

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Lambde school is a long boot camp, unusually long. Some som ere starting to get tobe about that length. Many of the students i talked to were in incredibly dire economic straits before they started lamde school. And many of them basically had to take on credit to and, not to pay for the school, but to survive for nine months. They don't have an incentive if they think you're a lost cause, let's put it that way. I'm kind of glad that this exists as an opportunity. Because as an opportunity, a if they allow more people in, they'll be lowering the bench mark for who gets in,. That's what they've done

0:45 Jason intros Vincent Woo, who wrote "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" for New York Magazine
2:21 What drew Vincent to this story? What wrongdoings did he discover?
6:02 Vincent describes Lambda's ISAs and how they were sold
14:24 How Vincent approached Austen Allred as an investigative reporter & clip from Vincent's interview with Austen
16:19 What is Lambda's school actual placement rate? How does it compare with other coding bootcamps?
20:06 Getting Lambda's former Director of Student Placement on record to speak about the placement rates
23:43 Why ISA coding schools should exist
29:18 How Lambda's remote-only approach differentiates them & how opportunity cost plays into their issues
35:06 Where did Lambda School go wrong?
45:51 Does the business model work in broad strokes if opened up to everyone?
53:54 What does Lambda School need to do now?
58:21 Where is the blindspot in most entrepreneurs?
1:00:57 Vincent also writes about local political corruption in the Bay Area