freeCodeCamp is a non-profit unicorn: It delivered 1.3 billion minutes of free coding education last year, grows 60% every year, and is sustainably run by just 12 full time staff and hundreds of volunteers. That’s a smaller team than when Facebook acquired Instagram for $1b. A few weeks ago…

When we founded Thinkful in 2012 it was labeled “alternative” education second to degrees and 4-year college. Eight years later 62% of Americans prefer non-degree skills training over degrees. In 2019 we sold to Chegg for $100m, lowered prices for students, integrated, hit plan, and hired for the experience necessary…

Starting today all Thinkful graduates will be eligible for transfer credits to Southern New Hampshire University. This reflects the track record Thinkful has established getting students great jobs and it is another important step in taking students from learning to earning. It’s a big win for Thinkful students because it…

Today we’re founding the next era in Thinkful history: an era where our mission to build the world’s next workforce truly begins. For seven years we’ve known, deep down in our soul, that all adults should learn the way we teach. We’ve proven it works with our audited results. Now…

A few minutes ago 2U announced the acquisition of Trilogy for more than 6x their 2019 (forward-looking) revenue – a big number. It continues the consolidation started with last month’s announcement that Zovio acquired Fullstack Academy. It’s the biggest vote so far for the future of “Lifelong Learning”. From Pluralsight…

Two weeks after announcing we acquired Bloc I sat down with the founder of a competitor who asked with equal parts curiosity and jealousy, “We looked at Bloc and passed; why’d you guys do it?” What we saw – but the competition missed – was that after six years of…

Since 2012 Thinkful and Bloc have been building high-growth tech careers for thousands of students. Until now we’ve been at it separately, but today we put that to an end: Thinkful has acquired Bloc. The smartest people in flexible career acceleration now work here. We reach students others cannot. We…

We’re thrilled to announce Thinkful’s $9.6M Series A led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Tribeca Venture Partners. We’re also welcoming enormous education, product, and community expertise to our board with Amit Patel (Owl Ventures) and Brian Hirsch (Tribeca Venture Partners) joining Ann Miura-Ko (Floodgate), Dan and me. We raised…

We’re proud to release our second Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR) Outcomes Report to cover both of our bootcamp programs. First, Thinkful’s Flexible Web Development Bootcamp — still the only part-time program in CIRR. This report covers students who enrolled between July 2015 and December 2015 (note part-time…