u/michaelnovati replied · · edited
Why are they doing it for so cheap specifically?
I'm from Canada originally and I actually kind of understand the social motivations more and the United States is so much different culture. Sometimes things can cost more because they are better and more effective and they actually help people more. You mentioned your past cohorts were fully refunded because of bad experiences, so it's a little risky that someone will do the course for $1,000 and get a good job and they're going to spend three four five months on this. They might actually be better off spending $50,000 on something that is a guaranteed to get them a hundred thousand dollar fang job (no program exists but hypothetically).
So saying it's so cheap to help the students is not necessarily convincing that this is the right way to do it.
I'm trying to help y'all because a lot of people have been suspicious of this program and the cheaper and more free something is the more you have to genuinely explain the passion and motivations.
For example, my wife had a completely free boot camp in San Francisco in person for about 2 years and was paying for $5,000 a month rent out of pocket and took zero salary and it was entirely free. She was doing this because she had mentored at many programs and was frustrated by the quality of mentorship and wanted to do better to help people. Her dream was when she had enough savings to leave work and do this and she had worked at top companies for several years, becoming a staff engineer and having the financial savings to invest in giving back she did it. Then after running that program entirely by herself and only being able to support 6 to 10 people at once, and learning a lot about what works and doesn't work, she realized that she needs to hire the best people in the industry to scale effective training and that means that she needed to raise venture capital and that we she needs to charge people so that you can pay these amazing engineers to help teach. This has been really effective and worked really well and people have no problem paying because they are having such incredible increases in compensation from their training.
So I think you need a story like that to explain where this passion is coming from otherwise, people here are thinking that it's a big scam. I Ioked into the founders and the business registrations and your other data science bootcamp and I don't think it's a scam at all, which is why I'm trying to help you communicate your vision better so that people believe it.