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AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File Scott Galloway is a bestselling author and professor of marketing at NYU Stern. The following is a recent blog post, republished with permission, that originally ran on his blog, "No Mercy / No Malice." In it, Galloway says the elite educational institutes are still profiting while second-teir schools struggle.  Higher education is the most important industry in America. It's the vaccine against the inequities of capitalism, the lubricant of upward economic mobility, and the midwife of gene therapies and search engines. College graduate...

Ophelia, a NYC-based healthcare tech startup providing treatment for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), raised $15m in Series A funding. The round was led by Menlo Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Refactor Capital, and the founders of Flatiron Health, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Allbirds, PillPack, Carbon Health, and Lambda School. The company intends to use the funds to continue to build and expand its services to patients across the U.S., to soon accept insurance, including Medicare and Medicaid. Led by Zack Gray, Co-founder and CEO, Ophelia offers an alternative to t...

Austen Allred Will Pay You To Hire His Graduates! By Austen Allred Austen Allred with Joram Clervius, one of his first Lambda School students. Photo: Lambda School The way we interview and hire job applicants today is deeply flawed. This is especially true in software engineering roles, in part because companies rely far too heavily on structured interviews that "test" candidates on a set of skills that isn't very much like the job of software engineering at all. Those tests often include whiteboard brainteasers and algorithms quizzes that aren't closely related to what an engineer...

Bigeye (formerly Toro) scores $17M Series A to automate data quality monitoring As companies create machine learning models, the operations team needs to ensure the data used for the model is of sufficient quality, a process that can be time consuming. Bigeye (formerly Toro), an early stage startup is helping by automating data quality. Today the company announced a $17 million Series A led Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor Costanoa Ventures. That brings the total raised to $21 million with the $4 million seed, the startup raised last May. When we spoke to Bigeye CEO a...

The round was led by Sequoia Capital with participation from existing investor Costanoa Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to improve the platform and make it available to more data teams. Now, Bigeye is applying an engineering approach to data, making it effortless for data teams to measure, improve, and communicate data quality for their organizations. Led by Kyle Kirwan, CEO and co-founder, and by Egor Gryaznov, CTO and co-founder, Bigeye provides a data quality engineering platform that applies proven engineering concepts from DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The...