of udacity, an online education company. he is among the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. he previously ran google x, a research lab that developed the driverless car and google glass. he taught computer science at stanford. last month udacity was valued at $1 billion, making ate unicorn. i am pleased to have sebastian back at the table. >> great to be back. >> rose: udacity, who is it for? >> people who want jobs and people who want to be in demand. we're trying to find a separate pipeline to educate people and get people jobs, and you can guarantee people jobs when they're done. >> rose: how do you do that? we have a lot of companies to work with from google and engineers and they get a nanodegree which is a complete new kind of certificate. google or amazon or twitter build or content and vouch the content is leading edge, so when they come out, they're really, really strong engineers. >> rose: and this separates you from most online education courses? >> yes, there are a lot of problems an

he is the co-founder of udacity, an online education company. among the world's leading experts in robotics and artificial intelligence. he also taught computer science at stanford. last month, the value of udacity was at $1 billion, making it a unicorn. i am pleased to have sebastian back at the table. welcome. sebastian: it is great to be back. udacity, who is it for? sebastian: people who want jobs. people who want to be in demand. we are trying to find a separate pipeline. it can guarantee jobs. charlie: how do you do that? sebastian: we have a lot of companies that we work with. you get a nano degree in a completely different kind of certificate. fueled byfield -- industry. vouche and amazon about -- that these degrees are leading edge. so when they come out they will really be strong engineers. charlie: this separates you from most online courses? sebastian: there are fantastic companies out there. but we really focus on the drop -- job aspects. it is about job placement. we drop them into various programs to see that they can get a guaran

the thing we address at udacity is a thing people cannot get there.eople who grew up india or china, who have no chance or no access. we sometimes forget that we marvel about an i.t. and harvard, but we forget, even for american students, 80% go into nonselective universities with graduation rate of 50%. so for most of american youth, the university half is a bad one. half of them do not graduate, they have anonymous debt that will last -- enormous debt that will last a lifetime. maybe $100re charged a month, because for some degrees, we even give you a job. tuition should never be more than $1000 a year. charlie: imagine that. sebastian: and i really believe it is working. we have many things to prove. we have many problems that remain. but we graduate more than 1000 people who have found jobs and did they are really strong. and the shift careers. and you come to us afterwards and you are in demand. charlie: this is something that was said to me recently, what is the secret of the silicon valley? ups.sual answer is a start you have entrepreneurial ta