How to win the talent war, with Ryan Carson
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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Ryan is the Founder of Treehouse, an online technology school with over 80,000 enrolled students. He's passionate about creating the future of education, to change as many lives as possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room fire nation! JLD here and welcome to episode 1947 of EO Fire. |
| 0:10.4 | Right chat with entrepreneurs on fire. Seven days a week productivity discipline |
| 0:16.9 | focused. Those are my three greatest strengths and they can be yours too. Just |
| 0:21.2 | visit the mastery journal com and master all three skills in 100 days. Now let's |
| 0:27.4 | chat with today's featured guest Ryan Carson. Ryan are you prepared to ignite? Oh |
| 0:34.0 | yeah! Woo! Yes! Super excited! Let's do it. Ryan is the founder of Treehouse |
| 0:40.8 | an online technology school with over 80,000 enrolled students. He's passionate |
| 0:46.5 | about creating the future of education to change as many lives as possible. |
| 0:50.9 | Ryan take a minute fill in some gaps from that intro and give us just a |
| 0:54.9 | little glimpse of your personal life. Born and raised in Colorado was really |
| 0:59.6 | lucky to have great parents that love me and supported me so went to college |
| 1:04.1 | study computer science and then I thought I don't know what I don't know and I |
| 1:09.5 | lived in Colorado my whole life so let's move to a foreign country. So I watched |
| 1:14.7 | the film Notting Hill and I thought it looked nice so I moved to England and |
| 1:23.4 | I was going to stay for a year and then I met a girl and of course that girl |
| 1:28.6 | changed my life and we got married and I stayed in England for 12 years and I |
| 1:34.7 | started out as a web developer. I mean I got a job as a coder because I study |
| 1:39.3 | computer science and when I got my first job I was shocked at this crazy |
| 1:45.3 | disconnect between my degree and the job and we'll talk about it more later but |
| 1:49.9 | that is really the seed of where the idea came from for Treehouse. It really bothered me that |
| 1:56.3 | you know we had invested $50,000 in this degree and yet I didn't really use any of it in my job. |
| 2:03.9 | So then fast forward you know 10 years later and I started Treehouse to fix that problem and |
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