paul: engineering director irena mcdowell was giving corey thomas his marching orders. >> what does the they want it less done or do they want a more done pizza and then being able to send that information to the cloud, right? would you like to see the cheese bubbling? paul: oh yeah. cheese bubbling? ironically, corey thomas's last job, before interapt, also involved making pizza, as line cook in a joint near his parents' house. >> it's called tony boombozz. i'd say most of the time i was there was minimum wage. paul: and now you're designing apps for people who would be cooking pizza? >> yeah, i am ecstatic pretty much. paul: pretty good for a kid who hated high school, shunned college, spent three unhappy years in the army. >> we've taken the the c, d and f student in the back of the high school, and put them in a vocational coding program. and they've been the top performing in the class. paul: to ankur gop, such students are fruit just waiting to be plucked. >> two thirds of the people don't have a colge degree. so to us, that's that's untapped potential. >> this is going to let us

ironically, corey thomas's last job, before interapt, also involved making pizza as line cook in a jointr his parents' house. >> it's called tony boombozz. i'd say most of the time i was there was minimum wage. >> reporter: and now you're designing apps for people who would be cooking pizza? >> yeah, i am ecstatic pretty much. >> reporter: pretty good for a kid who hated high school, shunned college, spent three unhappy years in the army. >> we've taken the c, d and f student in the back of the high school and put them in a vocational coding program. and they've been the top performing in the class. >> reporter: to ankur gopal, such students are fruit just waiting to be plucked. >> two thirds of the people don't have a college degree. so to us, that's untapped poteial. >> this is going to let us flip a switch, see what happens in- app. >> we said, let's go and find the people that could still be very good at a job in the tech field. and we and that's exactly who we find. >> reporter: find, and train. for the pbs newshour, paul solman. >> woodruff: the fiscal and monetary policies impleme