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Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises by shalmanese on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:25AM (#22373582)
I've had a look at the books at a few different types of training style companies and the economics are always grim. It's one of those businesses where to the outsider, it's impossible to believe they're not spinning off unbelievable amounts of cash but they are always pretty marginal.

As additional evidence for this, the number of 1B+ exits in this space can be counted on one hand. General Assembly, for example, was acquired for ~$400M and it was one of the largest players. There was a player from Utah whose name eludes me now that had a, I think, ~$2B exit but that might be the only one.

Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises by dathanb82 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @12:29PM (#22376756)
> There was a player from Utah whose name eludes me now that had a, I think, ~$2B exit but that might be the only one.

Are you thinking of Instructure? They're based in Salt Lake City, and Marketwatch gives their current market cap as $1.86B

Re:Lambda School’s Misleading Promises by shalmanese on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @06:58AM (#22422218)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was the one, thanks!