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Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
by tedyoung 5y ago
Would love to know what caused this to happen, given (as the article says) huge amounts of money being poured into (seemingly) similar businesses.
- z0r 5y agoI remember reading a number of articles by / about the founder Ryan Carson similar to this one, about not taking unnecessary investment: https://medium.com/@ryancarson/not-silicon-valleys-timeline-baa3475eb6ac https://medium.com/@ryancarson/not-silicon-valleys-timeline-...
- encryptluks2 5y agoI imagine part of the problem is many of these coding schools are scams. It isn't that people can't learn from them, but what they are teaching is usually just too narrow to be all that useful.
- skinnymuch 5y agoTreehouse isn’t a school or bootcamp. It is just video lessons and such.
- rchaud 5y agoHow is it a scam? It's a month-to-month subscription service, $25/mo. from what I recall. They didn't charge 5-figure tuition and offer weak "job guarantees", which is what coding bootcamps do.
- tedivm 5y agoThey stole much of their initial content from other people and ripped all attribution from it. I found two of my blog posts on their site, without any attribution or permission.
- rchaud 5y agoThat is unfortunate about your blog posts. But customers pay for their video lessons, which (at least in 2014), were all created in-house.
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- midev 5y ago> what they are teaching is usually just too narrow to be all that useful They were video lessons on HTML, CSS, and other languages. Your comment makes no sense, and sounds more like projection than valid criticism.
- sexhaver1984 5y agoIt can be summed up easily: Most of the teachers left years ago due to a toxic work environment and all of the content went stale making it not live up to competitors.