where we eventually converge towards udacity is a much more hands-on service driven education where our students get one-on-one mentors and they get one-on-one code reviews and then we try to figure out how to make that scale
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — amazon
neutralfactfact_claimon Amazon
a normal mook has a finishing rate of two percent usually three percent
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — amazon
the original idea failed ... this thing became a big media hype
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — amazon
bearishfact✓ corroboratedfact_claimon Stanford University
the top 412 were online students the strongest Stanford student was number 413
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — stanford-university
bearishinterpretation✓ corroboratedcriticismon Stanford University
it's just so archaic it's like so 19th century I felt like we don't reach many people it's a very elitist system
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — stanford-university
neutralfactfact_claimon Google
google is going to help us live 20 years longer and they've got all the robots that are going to get rid of all the jobs this sounds like a recipe for chaos well first of all if that happens
— Sebastian Thrun & George Zachary democratize higher ed w/Udacity; bonus: Jonathon Triest — google