u/Own-Customer-4516 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Headline news...really? Headline news is Russia-Ukraine, Syria, Trump's tariffs, Climate Change. One would have to have very little happening in their life or zero interest in the world for a minor charity's connection to a small coding school to be headline news, no? Also you s
u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
I think people are interested in scams, my Netflix and HBO are full of scams and this is far more interesting than those scams because it's so polarizing - some people think this is fine and others think it's completely fraud.
When 80% of people get jobs it certainly helps, when like 20% of people get jobs and they see this stuff it has a real financial impact on them.
Codesmith took in about $80M over 10 years if they actually had 4000 paying students, so that's up there with some of the biggest ed-tech headlines I've seen.
Anyways, my understanding is Phil is still an advisor at Codesmith despite having a new full time day job.