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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone.

My guest today is Ryan Carson.

He's the founder and CEO of Treehouse.

His mission is to create the future

of education so he can help as many people as possible. When he's not doing that, he's obsessed

with Spartan racing. Ryan, are you ready to take us to the top? I am. Let's do it. All right, very

cool. So tell us about Treehouse. What's the company doing? How do you make money?

So we are an online school. We teach adults how to go from

zero to job ready, 100% online in about six months. And what does it mean? So like this guy named

Moses Finlay six days ago tweeted, he said, woo, big day. I just reached 10,000 points on treehouse.

What does that mean? So as you learn on Treehouse, you get points. And

the more you learn, the more points you get. And he happens to be 12. So he is a high performing

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