The sideways thinking of Silicon Valley
It was the tweet posted by the New York Times that caught my eye: ‘Silicon Valley is backing a novel idea: instead of charging students tuition, students go to school for free and are required to pay back a percentage of their income after graduation, but only if they get a job with a good salary.’ It is all happening at the Lambda School, a new online learning start-up that this week won millions of dollars in backing from a glittering line up of venture capitalists – including Google Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, the actor turned Shark Tanker, and Geoff Lewis, an acolyte of Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal.
