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Re:Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: wha... by hello_newman on Thursday June 08, 2017 @10:04PM (#14518710)
> My cohort was a little weird, people went on to do other stuff, like start their own bootcamps

I think that's really funny about the first ~3 DBC cohorts. A few grads of those first cohorts went on to start App Academy, Hack Reactor, and Hackbright Academy (I think) and others like it.

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Re:Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: wha... by rexpop on Friday June 09, 2017 @01:13AM (#14519306)
What do you make of it?
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Re:Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: wha... by hello_newman on Friday June 09, 2017 @05:10PM (#14524608)
well back in 2012 was literally the first time a code bootcamp had been done. I think because of that, a lot of smart people saw you could take this business model and get started really cheaply and it could be huge, which is was/is.

If you look at the early cohorts of DBC, anyone of those people could have learned to program on their own or already was. I think a lot of smart risk takers saw a huge opportunity that was wide open and ran with it.

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