GA helps students find jobs and gives them interview prep following the program as well. He also plans to set up interviews for those going through the program with at least one of his portfolio companies.
Ohanian says he will personally mentor recipients for a year. PayPal plans to help recipients with placement after the program by setting up meetings with internal engineers and hiring managers. Scholarship recipients get a 75% fee waiver to participate as well as some pretty hefty promises of support.
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The total cost of WDI is normally $11,500 for the full 12 weeks. The Opportunity Fund represents just a small step toward creating a more diverse workforce,” he said. Just as pervasive is the socio-economic divide. He said the first batch of students in the WDI program wasn’t quite 50-50 but it was pretty close. Schwartz was adamant this fund could help close the gap. “One of the coolest things I’ve seen is the level of diversity in just one course,” he told me. General Assembly CEO Jake Schwartz believes the fund is a solution to moving those numbers. But as Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg told USA Today,”The issue is not releasing the data. Every one of them show a workforce that is mostly male and white. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and most recently Apple have all released diversity figures in the last few months. The added support means GA can now expand its program to both Los Angeles and San Francisco as well. This expansion comes at a crucial time for Silicon Valley, especially. Google (through its Google for Entrepreneurs program), Microsoft, Hirepurpose and Nas (yes, the rapper) already support the program, which rolled out in New York City this last April. “Tech is the future of all industry and I want it to look like the world we live in,” said Ohanian about why he wanted to get involved.
Opportunity Fund gives scholarships to women, veterans and minorities to participate in GA’s 12-week Web Development Immersive (WDI) course. "In the very near future, the next day or so, we will be in a position to judge whether Iran actually intends now to engage in good faith.Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and PayPal have jumped on in support of General Assembly’s Opportunity Fund scholarship program.
"We're going to know very, very quickly, I think in the next day or two, whether Iran is serious or not," he said. In a phone call with Blinken on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for the "immediate cessation" of talks between Iran and major powers in Vienna, which resumed on Monday after a five-month hiatus.īlinken declined to comment directly on the request. "But even though the hour is getting very late, it is not too late for Iran to reverse course" to save the 2015 deal aimed at preventing Tehran from building an atomic bomb, Blinken told reporters in Stockholm on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). "I have to tell you, recent moves, recent rhetoric, don't give us a lot of cause for optimism," he said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday it was not too late for Iran to revive its nuclear deal with world powers, but cautioned that optimism was low.
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