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Amid crypto’s talent war, Encode Club mints new web3 developers

TechCrunch

Encode runs workshops, bootcamps and hackathons both online and in-person across the globe with the goal of providing a recruitment pipeline for its long-term partners, which it says include some of the most active blockchain protocols — Avalanche, Polkadot, Solana, and Polygon, to name a few.

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Tiger Global is betting that more schools are going to share future student earnings

TechCrunch

Just last week, a leader in the ISA space Lambda School laid off 65 employees amid a broader restructuring. The lack of gender diversity, even as an early-stage startup with a handful of employees, could hurt its competitive advantage, recruiting prospects, and performance over time. About 25 percent of the employees are LGBT and 37.5%

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Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

TechCrunch

Current customers include VillageMD, Plume, Lambda School, Ohi Tech, Proxy and Carta Healthcare. They built the startup around a remote and distributed team of engineers, which helped them keep costs down while still recruiting top talent. Remote work = immediate opportunity. Meanwhile, rivals were building teams in the Valley.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Instead of using SQL, Eventual’s query interface is a Lambda function that can be written in the programming language of your choice. Now, as CEO of Unai, Perumal recruited a team with former senior engineers from companies like Apple, Nvidia, Intel, Activision, Meta and Sony.

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Online Education is Having its Moment in a COVID-19 World: Part 2, Adult Learners

Battery Ventures

A new generation of technical schools has emerged, including Lambda School , Kenzie Academy , and Springboard. These programs pay off for employers in improved employee engagement and productivity as well as lower recruiting costs. COVID-19 will likely accelerate this trend, as employers look to keep workers productively engaged.

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Employee Spotlight: Mark Richman

Linux Academy

Soon after, a Linux Academy recruiter saw his work and well, the rest is history. ” Now Mark is able to spend even more time diving into the services he loves like EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, most Container-oriented services, DynamoDB, machine learning and more- all from the comfort of his home. Infinite growth opportunities.

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Online Universities, LMSes, MOOCs… What’s Next in Ed Tech?

Battery Ventures

This is putting increased pressure on companies to find ways to recruit, train, and re-skill their employees. Lambda School is innovating on the traditional coding bootcamp model by offering their classes 100% online, paid for via Income Sharing Agreements (ISA), an increasingly popular way of funding education.