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What was Tory Jarmain's role at Bitmaker Labs?
The McGill Daily reported on 2013-11-04 that "Tory Jarmain, a co-founder of Bitmaker Labs, told The Daily..."; a Yahoo Finance Canada blog post dated 2013-06-26 identified him as "Tory Jarmain, CTO at Bitmaker Labs."
Why did Bitmaker Labs face a regulatory investigation in 2013?
Yahoo Finance Canada's 2013-06-26 piece quotes Jarmain saying the program's nine-week, no-grades format put it in a "grey area" that drew scrutiny from Ontario's Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities: "There are no grades, no pieces of paper. We thought we were in some kind of grey area."
What did Bitmaker Labs teach?
The McGill Daily, on 2013-11-04, described it as a Toronto bootcamp where "over 85 per cent of its graduates find a job or begin their own startup within a month of graduating"; BetaKit's 2013-07-31 article said it trained participants "in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and more over a nine-week course that costs $9,000."
What happened to Bitmaker Labs?
BetaKit reported on 2016-08-10 that General Assembly acquired Bitmaker, terms undisclosed, as GA's entry into the Canadian market. Bitmaker's team, including CEO Andrew Mawer, stayed on, with Mawer becoming regional director of GA Toronto.