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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 31

    This tweet goes out to the VC who didn’t invest in Lambda School because if we accept people who didn’t go to college when they were 18 we’d be pulling from the “dregs of society.”

    10:12 AM - 31 Aug 2018
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      1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 31

        (The vast majority of VCs are good people trying to do the right thing, that was a pretty rare experience)

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      2. Joel Grus‏ @joelgrus Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        isn't that just VC-speak for "we don't buy your market-size estimates"?

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      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Aug 31
        Replying to @joelgrus

        No it was VC-speak for "we don't think those people can become software engineers"

        3 replies 2 retweets 84 likes
      4. Joel Grus‏ @joelgrus Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        imagine how they'll react when you launch the "venture investing" track 🤑

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      1. Noor Al-Hajri‏ @noornet Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        This is ridiculous of them to assert. @Joi Ito is technically a serial drop out, self-educated, now @MIT @medialab Director is one of the brightest people I've come across. There are so many more intelligent humans like him.

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      1. David Monson 孟海涛‏ @DMons_ Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Funny reaction in a lot of ways... "I think You can't go to school unless you've already been to school..." 🤔

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      1. George Anders‏ @GeorgeAnders Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Vindication is a great motivator! Congratulations on everything you -- and your students -- have accomplished. And the great thing is that as momentum builds, it does get easier.

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      2. Dr. Scott Cowley‏ @scottcowley Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        "Dreg of Society" belongs on a t-shirt.

        1 reply 0 retweets 21 likes
      3. Knic Ellis‏ @KnicTheFinch Aug 31
        Replying to @scottcowley @AustenAllred

        Dregs of society sounds like some sort of band name.

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      4. Sheree Atcheson‏ @nirushika Sep 1
        Replying to @KnicTheFinch @scottcowley @AustenAllred

        It exists!!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=egQLu99sjMU …

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      1. Robert Scoble‏Verified account @Scobleizer Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        You are inspiring. Keep helping people.

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      2. Ryan Giles‏ @rpgiles Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Lambda school is the true moneyball approach to hiring if you're looking for undervalued talent. Not everyone can/should be competing with the Yankees for free agents.

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      1. Carlos Lantigua‏ @LT_Senpai Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        #DregLife

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      2. Ryan Holdaway‏ @Ryan_Holdaway Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        We need shirts that say "Proud to be a dreg"

        1 reply 0 retweets 14 likes
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      1. Sam Solomon‏ @SamuelRSolomon Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Outrageous. Some of the smartest people I know either didn't go or dropped out of college.

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      1. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        People inevitably use filters for resource-allocation. Lambda School itself strives to be a "good" filter. This guy sounds like he had a very bad filter in his head based on a naive view of credentialism.

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      1. Edmond Bitay‏ @edmondnow Aug 31
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I guess this goes in the same bucket as the 'basket of deplorables', but different context.

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