1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:06,000 [Question: Why did Treehouse choose its slogan, "Our Mission is to teach Web Design, Development, 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,000 and iOS to people everywhere in order to help them achieve their dreams and change the world.] 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Also, a funny story. 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,000 [Jason Seifer] Do you know magnetic poetry? The stuff that you stick on the fridge? 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 The little magnets--they each have different words on them. 7 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 We just took a whole bunch of words in magnetic poetry form, 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:30,000 threw them onto the fridge and that was how it landed. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Then we were like, that makes sense. Let's go for it. 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 [Nick Pettit] We picked that because that is our mission. 11 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,000 We want to empower people and give them the tools that they need to 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,000 go off and do bigger and better things 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:52,000 or get that next project or make a website for their small business. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Whatever it is we want to help people achieve their dreams. 15 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 [Allison Grayce] Well, I think it really defines what we're doing. 16 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 We're teaching web design and web development to people, 17 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 so that they can continue to learn things that they either learn in school 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,000 or didn't have the ability to learn. 19 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 I think it just defines who we are as a company. 20 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:19,000 [Amit Bijlani] Because it is. That's really what we are about. 21 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 We're really passionate about teaching people. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,000 We receive emails from people all day, every day saying they got that job 23 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 that they were wanting because of the Treehouse videos. 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 They got that app out there and started to make money. 25 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:38,000 One guy just said that he's had an app in the App Store and is paying off his mortgage. 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,000 It's just really satisfying for us to see that we are changing people's lives. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 We want to continue doing so. 28 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 [Jim Haskins] Because that's our mission. 29 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,000 I don't really recall being in on that meeting. 30 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:59,000 I remember sort of talking about the core ideas in web development, web design, 31 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 iOs, are the major topics we're teaching, at least at the time. 32 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Definitely are expanding beyond that, but I think the reason that we want to do it 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 is because teaching these skills can really provide a lot of value to people 34 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 as far as allowing them to change their lives, 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 whether it be advancing in their career or making a career change 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:26,000 to one of those topics or just building something on their own. 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 I think that's a real opportunity to change the world, 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,000 and it's really exciting to be teaching for that reason 39 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:34,000 so as to actually help people in a real way. 40 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 [Q & A] 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 [treehouse]