Featuring Austen Allred, CEO Bloom Institute of Technology (fka Lamada School)Connect w/ Austen: LinkedIn and Twitter Sponsor: Live Podcast TourMake sure to visit https://www.techtables.com/ and check out the “Upcoming Live Podcast Tours”Show NotesAusten's unique perspectives on moving to the center of the outcome you wantThe underrated power of creative effort in building a networkIs the degree worth the debt?Why Web3 is the new oil field. Quotes I often think if you took the amount of work that goes into one class in college and spent that networking, you would outpace the total networking ability of a degree by 10X ~ Austen Allred We've done partnerships with Amazon for a back-end program and they want to hire as many people as they can... This is 100X that level of demand. No analogies to gold mines or oil fields can quite compare to what we're actually seeing ~ Austen Allred on the present and future of Web3 Working retail and dealing with people is difficult; but those aren't the skills necessarily that are insanely valuable and lucrative. So if you can take that person who has the skills that they do have and layer on another skill set that's highly in demand, then those are actually some of our highest earners coming out ~ Austen Allred I wish we believed in things more and I wish we strived for things more. And, even knowing that we can be wrong, I think right now it feels to me like cultural skepticism and negativity outweighs almost everything else ~ Austen AllredWant to dive deeper? Check out my episode on TechTables - https://www.techtables.com/And if you're a CIO or technology leader interested in joining the conversation on TechTables, shoot me an email at [email protected]. I'd love to have you on.Learn more about Joe Toste (me) at https://www.techtables.com/about/See what episodes I'm creating at https://www.techtables.com/ This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit techtables.substack.com/subscribe