The Remote Show

Ben Nelson, Co-Founder of Lambda School

Episode Summary

In this episode we talk to Ben Nelson, Co-Founder of Lambda School. Among the wide variety of topics, we discuss the future of education, the story of Lambda School from small code bootcamp beginnings to leading educational resource, building a team, and much much more! Please enjoy.

Episode Notes

In this episode we talk to Ben Nelson, the Co-Founder of Lambda School. Among the wide variety of topics, we discuss the future of education, the story of Lambda School from small code bootcamp beginnings to leading educational resource, building a team, and much much more!

Lambda School is a revolutionary educational resource where students only pay a portion of their salary after they find a high paying job (over 50K annually), and the total amount charged is capped at 30K total. We talk about how the model has evolved and how this way or learning has enabled a huge group of people who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to study programming and online skills the resources to do exactly that. Along with this fascinating and effective approach to learning, Lambda School is innovating to ensure they are being as inclusive as possible by removing as many biases to and barriers to entry that typically exists for parts of the population in the technology space. Their Summer Hackers Program is a great example of that!

Ben also had one of my favourite answers to our closing questions: "What is the best advice you've ever been given?"

Please enjoy.

For more on Lambda School, please visit: https://lambdaschool.com/
For their Summer Hackers Program, please visit: https://www.lambdaschool.com/summer-hackers/
Make sure to follow them on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin also!