Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" | E1039

Vincent Woo discusses his investigative reporting on Lambda School's misleading placement rates and income share agreements.

Independent Journalist Vincent Woo reflects on his piece, "Lambda School's Misleading Promises", shares insights on what drew him to the story, where Lambda School went wrong, how they can be better & more 0:45 Jason intros Vincent Woo, who wrote "Lambda School's Misleading Promises" for New York Magazine 2:21 What drew Vincent to this story? What wrongdoings did he discover? 6:02 Vincent describes Lambda's ISAs and how they were sold 14:24 How Vincent approached Austen Allred as an investigative reporter & clip from Vincent's interview with Austen 16:19 What is Lambda's school actual placement rate? How does it compare with other coding bootcamps? 20:06 Getting Lambda's former Director of Student Placement on record to speak about the placement rates 23:43 Why ISA coding schools should exist 29:18 How Lambda's remote-only approach differentiates them & how opportunity cost plays into their issues 35:06 Where did Lambda School go wrong? 45:51 Does the business model work in broad strokes if opened up to everyone? 53:54 What does Lambda School need to do now? 58:21 Where is the blindspot in most entrepreneurs? 1:00:57 Vincent also writes about local political corruption in the Bay Area A HUGE Thanks to our generous Patreon supporters: Stefan Samne, Niall Dennehy, Tom Meagher, Abdel Bioud, Carlos Aguilar, Podcast Notes, Mike Jonas, Tasneem, Vin Dowling, Stefano Vettorazzi, Mikael Pawlo, Luke Mroz, Tim-Kress Spatz, Dith Na, Jeremy Davidson, Clayton Memele, Scott LaVictor, Kirstan Barnett, David Wolkin, Darius Vasefi, Liron Shapira, Hassan Albalawi, Dominik Faber, Anthony Holley, Blaine Tanner, David Bailey, Marc Cyr, Monika Norwid, Ron Berkes, Russell S Holmes, Nicholas Wickman, Ryan Morrison, Robera Geleta, Barrie Heptonstall, Eric Dewhirst, Tony Bova, Bob Wilkinson, Ashon, Victor Izmaylov, Igor Ostrovsky, Alistair Palmar, Brian Kearns, Straight Cash Homie, Gordon Gooch, Said Saad, Ron Theis, Florian Schwarz, Scott Gay, Andy Vinh, Almuhtada Smith, Dave Rimmer, Arnaud Devie, Tim Shnaider, Brian Kearns, Dave, Steve Bernat, Cynthia, Ayo Dele, Chris Swain, Space Mining, Jack Reichert, Zen Lenon, Pam, Nick, Miguel Solano JJ, David Daily, Mark John, Tolu, John Malatras, Steven S, Franco Vargas Golac, CJ, Steven Kimbrough, Prakash Chandran & @moaz!!! patreon.com/twistartups