What Do You Think of Austin as an Individual?

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Welli put this way, i i know why you are banned from demo de. You seem very high principled to me. Even more your principal, guy, somewhat somewhat, seems very high. We've all done terrible things, you know. I gues i got an the shogers. I gon to find out why. So what else a do you think they need to do now? And what do you think of austin as an individual? He's a liar. Anithink when people in that position, who think highly of themselves, feel like the minor offenses they commit on that road are just minor offences,. That’s not it really. The reason i was

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