We often hear about making an investment in our education, but how would it be to find an education that invests in you?  The world of traditional education may not be for everyone.  When financial roadblocks leave you on the sidelines, it’s important to recognize that there are other ways to become educated.

 

Take Lambda School, for example: a groundbreaking educational vehicle which is completely free upfront.  When you get a job that pays more than $50,000 per year, they take a small cut after you’ve reached that financial threshold.  “If it doesn’t work out for you, you don’t pay anything,” says Austen Allred, CEO of Lambda School.

 

Join Ryan and our new co-host Miranda Rose, as they learn from Austen and how he is successfully creating opportunities for affordable education and job placement.  

In this episode you’ll learn about:

 

• Investing in You

• Finding Solutions

• Getting Out of the Dreaming Stage

• Scaling Back Ideas

• Taking Action On Small Steps

 

Quotes:

 

Austen:

 

“The economic data is showing that people are stuck in jobs and don't have a way to move up. We hope to be a solution to that.”

 

“We're investing in you . . . So we're looking for folks that are dedicated and willing to live up to that investment.”

 

“Aligning the incentives of the school with the incentives of the student affects everything.”

 

“Get out of dreaming stage as quickly as possible”

 

“Scale back your vision and find one sliver of it that's actually doable today and start there and build up”

Ryan

 

“You've now created an environment to help people dramatically increase their pay, by giving them a platform to learn and to grow and to experience it and in a lot of cases have a potential job ready for them when they're done”

 

“One of my favorite sayings in life is you're a product of the five people you spend the most time with”

 

“The industry is changing rapidly and there's a bigger need for qualified educated people in the digital space to take on what they're considering, what experts are saying 70 to 80 billion dollars in market shift from traditional to digital”

Miranda

 

“I already like the piece of advice I got from you today, which was get out of dreaming stage as soon as possible, I think that's a place a lot of people can get stuck, and if they think about it too much they'll remain there and then their vision and dream dies with them, with the potential that it had on the inside of them never ever coming to fruition”

ABOUT AUSTEN

Austen is Co-founder of Lambda School and also Co-author of The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide: Secret Sauce.  He’s been in the marketing world for over a decade and has helped grow many agencies and startups.

Austen Co-founded Lambda School as the pathway of least resistance for people to transcend from lower or medium income to high income.  The goal of Lambda school is to expand funding to housing, to living stipends and to leverage enough cash to be able to pay people to go to school.  When things work out on the other side for students, they pay back their education.

Currently they offer software engineer programs and are expanding to IOS, Android, cyber security, and UI/UX design. From there, they’ll expand to other models which work well in this format such as nursing and more.  The end goal is to build an affordable, sustainable education platform which invests in its students.

CONNECT WITH AUSTEN

 

Twitter: @AustenAllred

Web: Lambdaschool.com