#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU
Breaking Into Startups1 Marras 2017

#69: Adam Braun - Co-Founder of MissionU

Adam is a co-founder of MissionU where he is building a school for the 21st century. He is also a founder of Pencils of Promise that has built over 400 schools around the world and provided over 70k kids with an opportunity to learn! At MissionU, Adam is building a school for the 21st century! Millions of people are either themselves effected by college debt or know someone in their family who is effected by it. College loans are also the only kind of debt you cannot default on. To fix that, Adam and his team want to give you a world class education, debt free. When he first started, Adam went on a listening tour. He spoke to over 200 people, including students, educators and CEOs of publicly traded education companies to figure out how to solve the problem. As the result, MissionU partnered with companies like Spotify, Uber, Lyft, Warby Parker and many others to understand which base, skill-sets, a student must have in order for these companies to hire them. Afterwards, Adam and his team went back to the drawing board and designed a program where they will teach you the needed skills for a year, completely free and you’ll pay them a percentage of your salary once you get a job and you're making over fifty thousand dollars. Their program is a year long, it’s full time and because they realize that not everyone can afford to not work for a year, the program is meant to accommodate a 20-hour a week part time job as well.

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#44: Anthony Pompliano - How an Army Sergeant became a Product Manager at Facebook

#44: Anthony Pompliano - How an Army Sergeant became a Product Manager at Facebook

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#43: Soroush Mehraein - How a switch from Industrial to Software Engineering led to a job at Uber

#43: Soroush Mehraein - How a switch from Industrial to Software Engineering led to a job at Uber

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#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy

#42: Dan Pickett - Founder of Launch Academy

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#41: Kim Han - Biz Dev Deep Dive: from Tango to Business Development at Square

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#40: Quincy Larson - Founder of Free Code Camp, Community of 1,000,000+ People Learning How to Code

#40: Quincy Larson - Founder of Free Code Camp, Community of 1,000,000+ People Learning How to Code

Coming from a nontraditional background as an educator living in China for years, Quincy combined his passion for education and technology to launch Free Code Camp, an open-source community that helps...

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#38: Nimit Maru - Founder of Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper

#38: Nimit Maru - Founder of Fullstack Academy & Grace Hopper

Realizing the need for a more rigorous and accelerated curriculum for software engineers, Nimit Maru founded Fullstack Academy. He also founded its sister school, the Grace Hopper Program, which is th...

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#39: Carly Robinson - Chicago Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack

#39: Carly Robinson - Chicago Actress who became a Software Engineer at Slack

From dancing to coding, Carly Robinson left her theater career in New York and Chicago to break into tech. She attended Hackbright Academy and is now working as a software engineer at Slack. Prior t...

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#37: Natasha Vianna - Teen Mom who led the #NoTeenShame Campaign & became Head of Community at Honor

#37: Natasha Vianna - Teen Mom who led the #NoTeenShame Campaign & became Head of Community at Honor

As a teen mom, Natasha Vianna had to deal with the stereotype that society has boxed her in. But she didn’t let this break her spirit. Natasha’s goal was and is to be the best version of herself. In f...

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