Kagan Coughlin: Coding in Rural Mississippi (Pt 1)
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
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4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Kagan’s Base Camp Coding Academy trains high school graduates in rural Mississippi to become software developers in 12 months, and it’s 100% free to them! Their over 100 graduates have gone on to work for major corporations such as FedEx, Cspire, and CoreLogic. They’re helping solve the opportunity deficit in rural America, while at the same time solving a talent deficit for companies not based in major tech hubs like Silicon Valley.
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| 0:00.0 | I have this deeply ingrained belief that everyone should get to do whatever they want to if they're willing to do the work. |
| 0:12.0 | And I've always thought that. |
| 0:15.0 | And Mississippi kind of broke me of that opinion |
| 0:19.0 | and made it clear that no, that's just being able to feel like you're somewhere near the bottom and |
| 0:26.1 | looking up and feeling like it's husband, I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, I'm a father, I'm an entrepreneur, and I've been a |
| 0:47.0 | football coach in Intercity Memphis. And the last part, unintentionally led to an Oscar for the film about our team. It's called |
| 0:54.3 | Undefeded. I believe our country's problems will never be solved by a bunch of |
| 1:00.4 | fancy people in nice suits talking big words that nobody understands on CNN and Fox, |
| 1:06.0 | but rather by an army of normal folks, us, just you and me deciding, hey, I can help. That's what Kagan |
| 1:14.7 | Coughlin, the voice we just heard, is done. Kagan and his wife |
| 1:18.3 | Alexi have been huge catalyst to revitalizing the once declining small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, |
| 1:26.0 | incidentally where my grandfather was from. |
| 1:29.0 | In terms of its buildings, its businesses, and most of all offering new paths to achieving the American dream. |
| 1:37.8 | In a place that it was really hard to see happening, Kagan's Base Camp Coding Academy trains high school |
| 1:45.2 | graduates to become software developers in 12 months and it's 100% free to them and there are over 100 graduates have gone on to work for |
| 1:56.4 | major corporations such as FedEx, Seesfire, and FNC. It's an amazing story developing software developers in rural |
| 2:07.9 | Mississippi. I can't wait for you to meet Kagan right after these brief |
| 2:12.4 | messages from our generous sponsors. |
| 2:21.2 | My name is Rachel and this is my new podcast Rachel goes rogue. You think you know me because you've seen and heard the stories. I was most recently involved in one of the biggest reality TV scandals, coined scandal. |
| 2:36.8 | I'm ready to divulge the details and you may be shocked by what you hear. |
| 2:41.8 | I'm here to tell my story, the good, the bad, and the ugly. |
| 2:46.0 | I've made some terrible decisions, but I continue to learn and grow. |
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