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Why Did Lambda Succeed Online When Other Bootcamps Failed?

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From the episode: Austen Allred of Lambda School

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Existing bootcamps tried to solve online with the same tools they were teaching offline. When they put their curriculum on the internet and it did not work as expected, they assumed the internet was broken. Lambda realized that in order to teach their students online, and to get them jobs, not just the whole curriculum but the whole ecosystem for the students had to be changed from the ground up.

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