Rapid Response: How Campus won over Sam Altman & Shaq, with founder Tade Oyerinde

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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With student loan debt at record highs, higher education is at a crossroads. Campus is an all-online community college that’s built a business model around competitive pricing, resources for students (like giving them a laptop and paying for home internet), and compensating professors well above the national average. The start-up also achieves high graduation rates, while maintaining an impressive bottom line. Campus founder and Chancellor Tade Oyerinde shares how he wooed investors like Sam Altman and Shaq, and has won-over major partners from Forever 21 to Arizona State University and Butler University.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, some exciting news. We have just unveiled a stellar new lineup of Masters of
0:06.5	Scale Summit speakers, including Tracy Ellis Ross, the founder of Pattern Beauty,
0:11.8	Brett Taylor, the Open AI Board Chair, and Emma Grida, the entrepreneur
0:17.2	behind Good American Skims and more.
0:20.5	But that's not all.
0:21.6	Go to Master to Scale.com
0:23.8	slash apply to see the latest list of speakers who will join
0:27.2	summit in San Francisco this fall and apply today for a chance to
0:31.6	attend in person.
0:32.8	Again, that's Master's Scale.com
0:35.0	slash Apply.
0:38.0	With campus, everyone knows, like maybe we won't succeed.
0:42.0	I don't know what the odds are
0:43.0	but but if we win and every American gets skills and knowledge with no debt
0:51.4	that's a completely different country.
0:55.0	In most businesses, there's this sort of inverse relationship between what's good for the world and what's good for the company.
1:01.0	One of the things I love about this model is students
1:05.9	graduating is good for students. It's good for our country. It's good for
1:09.2	society. And it's good for our bottom line.
1:23.9	That's Tade Oyerende, founder of campus, an online community college that's shaking up the world of higher education with backers like open AI Sam Altman and NBA icon Chakeel O'Neill. I wanted to talk to
1:29.9	Todd A now because higher ed is facing all kinds of new pressures, cultural and
1:34.7	financial, with student debt at record levels and the value of traditional
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