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[Treehouse Teacher Q & A]

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[Question: Why did Treehouse choose its slogan, "Our Mission is to teach Web Design, Development, 

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and iOS to people everywhere in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.]

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Also, a funny story.

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[Jason Seifer] Do you know magnetic poetry? The stuff that you stick on the fridge?

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The little magnets--they each have different words on them.

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We just took a whole bunch of words in magnetic poetry form,

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threw them onto the fridge and that was how it landed.

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Then we were like, that makes sense. Let's go for it.

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[Nick Pettit] We picked that because that is our mission.

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We want to empower people and give them the tools that they need to

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go off and do bigger and better things

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or get that next project or make a website for their small business.

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Whatever it is we want to help people achieve their dreams.

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[Allison Grayce] Well, I think it really defines what we're doing.

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We're teaching web design and web development to people,

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so that they can continue to learn things that they either learn in school

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or didn't have the ability to learn.

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I think it just defines who we are as a company.

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[Amit Bijlani] Because it is. That's really what we are about.

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We're really passionate about teaching people.

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We receive emails from people all day, every day saying they got that job

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that they were wanting because of the Treehouse videos.

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They got that app out there and started to make money.

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One guy just said that he's had an app in the App Store and is paying off his mortgage.

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It's just really satisfying for us to see that we are changing people's lives.

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We want to continue doing so.

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[Jim Haskins] Because that's our mission.

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I don't really recall being in on that meeting.

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I remember sort of talking about the core ideas in web development, web design,

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iOs, are the major topics we're teaching, at least at the time.

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Definitely are expanding beyond that, but I think the reason that we want to do it

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is because teaching these skills can really provide a lot of value to people

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as far as allowing them to change their lives,

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whether it be advancing in their career or making a career change 

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to one of those topics or just building something on their own.

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I think that's a real opportunity to change the world,

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and it's really exciting to be teaching for that reason

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so as to actually help people in a real way.

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