#105: Rick O'Donnell - CEO of Skills Fund, Providing Financing to Coding Bootcamp Students
Breaking Into Startups
English - November 19, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 46.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 262 ratingsTechnology technology business development education fire leadership startup interview programming software Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Rick O’Donnell is the Founder and CEO of Skills Fund, a place that provides people with an opportunity to acquire skills and they also provide financing for students as they're doing a career transition.
Prior to Skills Fund, Rick worked as an Executive Director for the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies as well as the Director for the Department of Higher Education where he oversaw 29 public colleges and universities in Colorado. Since its founding in 2015, Skills Fund has provided over $100 million in students loans.
Today, Rick talks about how you should be thinking about your career transition and how you can afford it as well.