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Oct 2018
55m 29s

Austen Allred: How to Fix Our Broken Edu...

Anthony Pompliano
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<p>Austen Allred is the co-founder and CEO of Lambda School, a full computer science education that’s free until you get a high paying job. In this conversation, Allred and Anthony Pompliano Discuss Y Combinator, the challenges of building a startup, what it takes to train a computer engineer, why the current student debt problem is so bad, and how ... Show More
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