How to access the best tech talent around the world with Sylvain Kalache

<p>On this episode Abadesi talks to <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/@sylvainkalache">Sylvain Kalache</a>, co-founder of <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/posts/holberton-school-2">Holberton School</a>, a project-based alternative to college where you can become a software engineer in two years. They have campuses in the United States and Colombia. Sylvain formerly worked at Slideshare and LinkedIn.</p><p>In this episode they talk about...</p><h2>The story of founding Holberton and why a new type of school is needed</h2><blockquote><p>“Some companies are tech and the ones who are not, are either becoming a tech company or they are going to die. Even a non-tech company, like healthcare, retail, media, transportation, you name it, they all need software engineers.”</p></blockquote><p>Sylvain talks about how they came up with the idea for Holberton and the experiences he had that convinced him of the need for the school. He explains how he and his co-founder decided to set out to f...