u/endlessvoid94 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I was the cofounder / CTO at bloc.io and it’s been baffling to watch seasoned executives at boot camps repeat the mistakes of the past with ISAs. It’s such a bad deal for everyone. All too often when education and capitalism meet, the result is exploitation. It’s like a systemic
u/michaelnovati replied ·
I disagree that it HAS to destroy mission drive people even though it does sometimes.
VC-backed for profit education has tried to scale fast by just "temporarily" hiring humans (which cost too much and don't scale) or by buying 3rd party software that doesn't meet the needs.
I worked at FB for 8 years and despite many failed features, I observed what building "good product" means and I think that's the missing piece in high-touch expensive training. The nuances of building good product at scale I can't put into a single post or comment but it's the secret sauce people don't talk about. We're taking that approach - hiring very strong product engineers and building good product to not just "scale something that works at a smaller scale" but to make an experience that GETS BETTER THE LARGER IT IS. Our algorithms and platform genuinely get better the larger we are because we can match people better and schedule things better. Right now we schedule 500+ sessions every week from scratch (choosing all the people in them, the topics, the formats all from scratch) and the algorithms that do this genuinely get better the most options there are to crunch through.
This is the kind of thing that to me will scale. Obviously there are tons of challenges with that need to be solved, but at least it's a new approach that could work without "destroying the mission"