Just a heads up. Your site website navbar header is pretty hard to read (desktop, chrome, on mac). Here's a screenshot of what it looks like for me. The links are blending into the background. https://imgur.com/Gil5L9c
Thanks, you’re 100% correct. Currently working on a redesign.
Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
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Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#12Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
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#13Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#14Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
How do you collect the money? What's preventing a student from not paying you?
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#15Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
How do you collect the money? What's preventing a student from not paying you?
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#16"Upon completion of the nine month program students will be required to pay 10% of their salary for 5 years."
Yes, that covers the price of tuition and repayment of the $18,000 Lambda School gives out in stipends, as well as cost of capital and risk (you only pay back if you’re making more than $50k/yr, otherwise you pay $0).
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that covers the price of tuition and repayment of the $18,000 Lambda School gives out in stipends, as well as cost of capital and risk (you only pay back if you’re making more than $50k/yr, otherwise you pay $0).
If I make $50,001, would I have to pay back the full 10%? Or is there some sort of gradient?
In fact you might just want to ask for a raise to $55k and be net ahead because that’s not a great software engineering salary.
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#18Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#19Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
Re: Lambda School (YC S17) now pays eligible students $2k/month
#20Hey, co-founder of Lambda School here. We launched our online CS academy with no upfront tuition almost two years ago. Now with thousands of students enrolled and hundreds already employed and paying back we wanted to take the next step and open up access to folks who couldn’t afford to pay to survive while attending. Of course, that introduces significant risk on our part, as students still only pay us back if they…
This sounds amazing. Any chance this will be available for EU students in the future?