The History of Domesticated Animals was a course my really good friend took while attending Columbia University. Her tuition was $40,000 per year. She’s been out of college for almost 10 years, and still paying off the debt. She works at an accounting firm. Needless to say, that aforementioned course surprisingly hasn’t added any value to her current position, or any position she’s ever had in her professional career. Our education system is broken. There are countless entrepreneurs attempting to refine, disrupt and improve the broken model with online education, skill-based bootcamps and skill-based courses (including one of my projects, Intangibly ). I recently spoke to two very impressive young entrepreneurs who are in my Facebook group . Mind you, they’re also brother and sister, and on their second business. Brendan and Ashley Eapen are the founders of In/Spree . After speaking to them, I told them that I was writing this column, and asked them to give their insights
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