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This Week in Startups

E1104 The Next Unicorns E16: Degreed’s David Blake on reimagining lifelong education, ending credentialism, benefits of early apprenticeship & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Hey everybody welcome back to this week in startups. It's

0:54.9

2020 the year of the pandemic and it's September. It's been six months under some

1:00.3

form of shelter in place, lockdown, and the predominant issue people are dealing with right now at this moment

1:09.8

in September is not the pandemic itself. We seem to have learned to live with the pandemic.

1:14.9

It is the second-order impact of the pandemic that is causing great concern, anxiety,

1:20.8

stress and frustration for Americans specifically.

1:25.0

And the tip of that spear is going back to school, education.

1:29.2

Colleges are charging the same price for classes over webcams as they were in person and this is

1:36.4

against the backdrop of people questioning if higher education was even worth

1:41.5

it to begin with.

1:43.2

People going into student debt at a level we've never seen coming out of it in their 40s,

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