I think this startup is the result of a tight labor market making employers look for less credentialed candidates, a general skepticism of credentials in the te

I think this startup is the result of a tight labor market making employers look for less credentialed candidates, a general skepticism of credentials in the tech sector, and society's general fascination with "whiz kids". Similar to the Thiel Fellowship, but with a profit motive instead of a philanthropic one. I also think it indicates our education systems' general inability to handle kids who are significantly outside the norm, leading them to pursue their education outside of them. IMO these things that get kids to skip college is neither good nor bad, but depend a lot on these kids aspirations; if they want to go work in research, then that pipeline is still very much interested in credentials and a body of work (which is unsurprising, given how competitive it is), but if these kids are more interested in the engineering side of things in industry, then this is probably good for them. Though it's worth caveating that immigration systems are still exceptionally interested in credentials, so you can only really skip them if you're in the US already.