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Allan Presland and the trouble with being sure
A walk with Hector taught the Parenta founder something awkward about confidence. His career in childcare keeps returning to the same question: how do you know what is actually working?
Matt Ebert and the Art of the Second Repair
A wrecked car at 16 gave Matt Ebert a trade. Building Crash Champions taught him that the harder repair is often the business around it.
tiplay makes games. Its bigger bet is making game makers.
A studio in Denizli built an accelerator, trained its own talent and took games from phones to parked cars. The interesting product is the system behind the games.
Catalyte and the talent hiding in plain sight
A produce manager can become a software developer. Catalyte has built a business around that possibility - and the harder business of persuading employers to pay for it.
Multiverse wants your AI investment to earn its keep
The apprenticeship company that challenged university now teaches the existing workforce to put AI to work. Its real test is what happens after the lesson ends.
Parenta ditched the webcams. The nursery bills were a better business.
A six-week false start sent Parenta into the everyday work of running a nursery. Today, its mix of software, fee collection and apprenticeships shows how much of childcare happens behind the scenes.
QA Apprenticeships puts the day job on the syllabus
A Costa Coffee apprentice forecasting cup waste captures QA’s pitch: learn a technical skill, then put it to work. The harder part is making room for learning inside a working week.
Mark Kasdorf Left the App Economy to Build a Heat-Pump Workforce
After bootstrapping a mobile studio to $25 million and selling it to Accenture, the serial founder chose a harder interface: houses, crews and the stubborn shortage of skilled labor.
OpenClassrooms
OpenClassrooms is a Paris-based online education company that turns coursework into jobs. Founded in 2013 by Pierre Dubuc and Mathieu Nebra out of the tutorial site Le Site du Zéro, it offers hundreds of free courses plus accredited, mentor-supported degree and apprenticeship programs in fields like data, AI, cybersecurity and web development. A certified B Corp with roughly 2.5 million monthly users, the company pairs project-based online learning with real-world work placements and a network of thousands of expert mentors, positioning itself as an education-to-employment platform rather than a video-course catalog.
Mission College
Mission College is a public community college in Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, part of the West Valley-Mission Community College District. Founded in 1975, it offers associate degrees, university-transfer pathways, career and technical certificates, ESL and noncredit courses to a diverse, largely working-adult student body. Through its Mission Promise program it offers free tuition to district residents and wraps students in support services - food, childcare, mental-health counseling and more - to remove the barriers that keep people from finishing.