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Ariel Quinones
Ariel Quinones is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ironhack, a global tech bootcamp he launched in Madrid in 2013 with Gonzalo Manrique after the two met at Wharton. Raised in a Puerto Rican family of educators, he spotted a mismatch he could not unsee: youth unemployment above 50% in Spain sitting beside hundreds of thousands of unfilled tech jobs. Ironhack was his answer - short, intensive, outcomes-obsessed training that has since graduated thousands of career-changers across campuses in Europe, the Americas, and beyond. He now leads from Miami, preaching a gospel of ruthless focus on student outcomes and over-delivering on what people expect.
Austen Allred
Austen Allred is the founder of Lambda School (rebranded Bloom Institute of Technology), the income-share-agreement coding bootcamp that raised $129M+ and peaked at a $200M valuation before a CFPB enforcement action in 2024. Undeterred, he launched Gauntlet AI in Austin - a fully employer-funded, invitation-only AI engineering program that is 100% free for participants, guarantees $200K+ job offers on completion, and has already trained engineers reporting 50% productivity gains.
Matt Gray
Matt Gray is a Canadian-born serial entrepreneur and founder of Founder OS, a company teaching founders to build personal brands and scalable businesses through organic content and repeatable systems. He previously co-founded Bitmaker (Canada's first major coding bootcamp, acquired in an 8-figure deal) and Herb (world's largest cannabis community, 14M users, $14M revenue). Today he runs a $13M+/year portfolio working ~4 hours a day, has 2.5M+ followers across platforms, and is known as 'The Systems Guy' in the creator economy.