I personally appreciate the reality check that not everything these famous people think is worth writing down nor sharing.
It also demonstrates how disconnected from the average person he was if he almost only saw OSX, when the market was 95%+ Windows.
This is like saying your evaluation of my property, back when it was in bad shape was wrong... because after renovating the entire thing and fixing its issues, I got a different price.
From the linked article:
> Is there some way Microsoft could come back? In principle, yes
So, of course if you manage to change the input, you'll get a different output.
Today's Microsoft (WSL, Edge, Bing, Azure, VSCode, copilot, etc) is so different from 2007 you wouldn't even recognize it as the same company. Just like what Paul Graham has said they needed to change if they were to survive.
The CFPB, a federal regulatory body, came down on them (and the founder in particular) a few weeks ago [0]
See e.g. the narrative and related discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729501
[0] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes...
I'm not sure what to make of this. What is ISA? Isn't this like 20% hire rate from taking Lambda course?
Or was it that they attracted a lot of people who simply can't make that leap from student to developer because they never had the aptitude for that job?
Not saying Lambda School wasn't a fraud but seems like they started out with some good intention but halfway got greedy and dishonest because Paul likes "edgy founders"
Just a ton of broken dreams, financial ruin not unlike some of YC's backed companies.
The way Lambda School worked was, you didn't pay for the instruction up front. Rather, when you got a job, Lambda School was entitled to take a chunk of your income.
It had the whiff of scam to me, as it reminded me of the payment arrangements for another outfit, variously called Unbounded Solutions, BrighterBrain, and EnhanceIT: you go to Atlanta for two months of "free" training, after which you were bound to indentured servitude to them for a period of two years. Attempt to break the contract and you would be billed a minimum of $20,000 for the "free" training they offered you.