What About Life After School? with Caleb Hicks
Teenagers are underestimated and underchallenged. You don't have to look far to find a driven teen who's running their own profitable business, building a community with tens of thousands of followers, or contributing in meaningful roles at top tier companies like Stripe, Apple, or Google.
Caleb believes these teens aren't edge cases of talent, but of opportunity, mentorship, and support structure. Despite spending over 7,500 hours in traditional classrooms, most young people graduate high school with neither a clear vision for what they want to do in life, or the skills to find and pursue a career that gives them the life they want.
We live in an increasingly permissionless world, where what you can do and how you chase it matters far more than any credential. Want to work in software development? A CS degree can help, but having built apps and being able to contribute on a team matter far more. Want to work in marketing? Prove you can get people interested in a new idea or product.
Today's teenagers have a world of opportunity in front of them, and traditional schools are ill equipped to give students the community, mentorship, structure, or experiences that will help them discover and chase their path. There's a wave of new schools and enrichment programs helping fill that gap.
In today's InspirED conversation, Caleb Hicks will share his experiences working with driven teenagers in teen entrepreneurship programs, career clubs like FBLA and DECA, alternative education programs like Lambda School, and on the job in his new company Factor where he's building a better onramp to life after school; helping students chart their course, build experience, and launch their career straight out high school.
Prior to working on Factor, Caleb cofounded and build the school behind Lambda School, a technical career accelerator that popularized the Income Share Agreement and has placed thousands of students into their first technical jobs. He's built learning programs and curriculum for hundreds of thousands of students – including statewide business clubs and teen entrepreneurship programs, and Apple's Everyone Can Code program, helping teachers around the world bring code into their classrooms.
Join our club in Clubhouse to be notified when the event starts.
By registering to this event, we will send you a reminder before the event happens and you will be the first to receive a link to the recorded event afterwards.
