Why Didn't Austen Just Say, OK, I'll Cancel Al of Them?

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I don't know why it would have been so easy to buy off these students, because, like, you're not even buying anything. I've seen a lot of screen shots in private conversations between austin and students. He just tells like, yes, he tells them that they're wrong. The cognitive dissonance introduced by that event, i think, causes him to fight something. Especially if you told yourself in the morning every day, like, i am the mission, the mission is good.

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