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by jthree 3659 days ago
Name three great for-profit colleges.

Ok, name one.

Now you see the average for-profit bootcamps being acquired by traditional for-profit colleges.

The duty to make financial returns for investors necessitates extracting money from students. Like an ecosystem with the oxygen slowly extracted out, the good things happening there eventually die.

I believe the only two non-profits in this space are Ada Academy in Seattle and our Turing School in Denver. At Tuting, we believe in a world where the people building technology represent the people using it. We'll still be here in 10, 25, and 100 years working towards that vision.