Austen Allred of Lambda School

Austen Allred, Lambda School, Bootstrapping, Educational Company, Failure, Mental Game

Austen Allred of Lambda School teaches first-time developers how to code…and doesn’t ask for payment until students earn a strong salary.

We talked about his past failures and how he nearly didn’t recover from them. Then we shifted to how he came up with Lambda and how it could change all education.

Austen Allred

Lambda School

Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School which teaches first-time developers how to code.

Andrew: . Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And I’ve been watching this guy.

Austen: Awesome.

Andrew: You’ve a lot of people who are, who are fans of yours, a lot of people who are riled up by you. And I feel like it’s all intentional.

And it’s part of it’s part of who you are. It’s I would almost call it or you might call it your super power. My right.

Austen: I didn’t even think of it that way, honestly. so a lot of that stems from my Twitter account and honestly, my Twitter account has always just like been something that I pro stuff out on top of mind. So when we started Lambda school and we got into Y Combinator, I think at the time I had like 30,000 followers on Twitter, which is not zero, but it’s not.

You know what it is today. and I was like, okay, I need to be...

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