Why coding bootcamps?

Staggering student debt
$35,200

Mismatch of expectations

What's the most effective way ...

Bootcamps vs. Higher Ed

Degree for a degree's sake
Focus on skills, not credits
Find your passion and follow it

“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people”

“If you take somebody who has high cognitive ability, is innately curious, willing to learn and has emergent leadership skills, and you hire them as an HR person or finance person, and they have no content knowledge, and you compare them with someone who’s been doing just one thing and is a world expert, the expert will go: ‘I’ve seen this 100 times before; here’s what you do"

“Humans are by nature creative beings, but not by nature logical, structured-thinking beings. Those are skills you have to learn,” Bock said. “I took statistics at business school, and it was transformative for my career. Analytical training gives you a skill set that differentiates you from most people in the labor market.”

“It looks like the thing that separates out the capable students from the really successful ones is not so much their knowledge…but their persistence at something,”

“My belief is not that one shouldn’t go to college … most don’t put enough thought into why they’re going and what they want to get out of it,”