Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one
Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request : Tweets: @antoniogm , @benharnett , @angebassa , @kaylahroxout , @koehrsen_will , @sarthakgh , @elidourado , @tommycollison , @pkafka , @celinehalioua , @robkhenderson , @dangrover , @paulg , and @antoniogm Tweets: Antonio Garca Martnez / @antoniogm : My interview with @Austen of @LambdaSchool on social mobility and education. Austen is building a class escalator via income-sharing schooling, and has some choice words on both that and the traditional channels for class mobility, universities. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Benjamin Harnett / @benharnett : OK, you could waste a lot of time and resources making people like this guy rich trying to “fix” lower class people by “training” them on how to pass, or you could, I dunno, raise marginal tax rates and give poor people money, which actually will work. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Angela Bassa / @angebassa : I can't even count the number of times I came across these types of “gates” over the course of my career (and life!). Sure, there's was an ESL language barrier initially... but then there's a *language* barrier when you're climbing the social ladder. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Kayla Diaz de Arce / @kaylahroxout : I was definitely one of those people that was like “Wait. You're going to give me a laptop? A MACBOOK PRO at that?? A home office setup???” When I worked as a radio DJ, they didn't even provide me with headphones 😂 https://twitter.com/... Will Koehrsen / @koehrsen_will : The Lambda School only charges students if they get a job in their field of study. That's an exceptional value prop compared to traditional colleges. Here's an enlightening interview with the founder of the Lambda School, Austen Allred. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Sar Haribhakti / @sarthakgh : “The hiring process is not just a filter for skills, it's also a filter for class. And people don't talk about or acknowledge that. It's very clear in all these protocols that we have in tech that you and I understand, you have to learn them the hard way.” https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Eli Dourado / @elidourado : So much human potential untapped because of silly things like not knowing email etiquette. Kudos to Lambda for addressing this. https://twitter.com/... Tommy Collison / @tommycollison : “Where are people trying to hire and those people don't exist? Tech is an obvious one, but it's all over the place in healthcare and the skilled trades.” Great chat with @antoniogm and @Austen. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : This is a good, provocative read. https://twitter.com/... Celine Halioua / @celinehalioua : Relate to this so much. I had the exact same firstname.lastname gmail conversation, calendars, email etiquette....so much of my first years in SF was learning every single social norm by brute force https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Rob Henderson / @robkhenderson : “The hiring process is not just a filter for skills, it's also a filter for class...there was this guy at a conference...gave me his business card and said ‘just ping me’ next week...I spent hours and hours and hours looking up what ‘ping me’ meant.” https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Dan Grover / @dangrover : Great interview. “There are a whole swath of white collar jobs that the interview process literally is like, Hey, I'm gonna play a little verbal tennis with you and see if you can stand your ground and if you can, you get the job.” https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... Paul Graham / @paulg : “The Uber people reached out to me and said: We don't know if this is going to work. I was like, he's a smart guy, it's just that he doesn't have a bank account. So now we set up bank accounts for every student that doesn't have a bank account.” https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... @antoniogm : What's fascinating about Lambda is that it's different than universities in almost every way: you don't pay for it, you don't have to do it for four years at age 18 or never again, and...you'll probably have a job at the end of it that results in an income bump. https://twitter.com/...