Vincent Woo in 2020: "Lambda has claimed a 86% student placement rate for years. The real number is probably about 50%." [1]

From the announcement: "BloomTech and Allred lured prospective enrollees with inflated promises of job-placement rates as high as 86 percent, when the company’s internal metrics showed placement rates closer to 50 percent and in some cases as low as 30 percent."

Bravo Vincent!

[1] https://twitter.com/fulligin/status/1230152732809392133

[2] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

Thanks

I remember seeing you debate Jason Calacanis from the all in podcast on this week in startups on this exact topic. You are probably one of the most confident, well spoken people I have ever heard on a podcast. You also don't derive your comfort from the people around you, so you didn't feel the need to laugh away awkward moments. It's a great watch. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5hUT8VZNvm8&t=3488s&pp=ygUhVGh...

If you want to code with your voice, also checkout https://github.com/cursorless-dev/cursorless

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Some of the workers live hours away from the warehouse. The President of the Amazon Labor Union lived in New Jersey[1] when he was working there.

So there might be a lot of, or a least enough to make a difference, overlap in the hiring pool, depending how far they relocate.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krKjNgLaiyU

I'd be surprised if this actually works.

Not me. I’d think capturing sublingual speech would be much easier than dealing with noisy brainwaves.

Is there a demo or paper somewhere?

Valorant's voice assistant is, at first glance, in the gray area of cheating.

YC backs another open source alternative to intercom with papercups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24133719

That was backed last year. Isn't there some conflict from the investor when the companies are so similar?

Alex from Papercups here :)

My guess is partially what vardaro mentioned (to hedge their bets), and partially because the space is really, really "wide" (not sure if that's the right word) in the sense that products like this could go in a million different directions... for example: email marketing, CRM, session reply, chatbots, etc. etc.

That's to say, even though Papercups and Chatwoot seem pretty similar at the moment, I wouldn't be surprised if that changes quite a bit in a year or so!

(Also it's no secret that YC invests in a ton of similar companies :P e.g. our batch alone had at least three video conferencing companies iirc.)

Hey Alex, we use and love Papercups. Very nice to use and a refreshingly simple experience.

I’m guessing it’s a hedge in case one fails

Is the application finished? The about page returns 404.

What's that saying: if you're not embarrassed by your startup you've launched too late. I'm sorry for the broken link ron22.

Our goal atm is to get some early users that are willing to talk about their problems and figure out the best solution with them.