The Iron Yard Coming to LR, Set for Arkansas Business Feature
The Iron Yard coding school is setting up shop in Little Rock this May, an event that tech startup leaders in Arkansas consider significant.
The move was announced in January.
Developing a pool of homegrown tech talent is critical to the state's continuing growth as a tech startup draw.
Arkansas Business will feature Iron Yard founder Peter Barth and the efforts of Arkansas' own Kristian Andersen to lure his school to the state in next week's issue, out Monday.
Barth said once he met with Innovate Arkansas officials and saw the tech startup environment first-hand, expansion to Little Rock was moved up.
Here's a tease from the story:
Andersen looks at the Iron Yard as the topper to a decade of steady progress.
“Having a coding school like the Iron Yard here will help create more high-paying jobs, more wealth, more upward mobility and supercharge the growth of this tech startup ecosystem,” he said.
“The most successful startup ecosystems have some things in common. They are cool places to live, they have access to talent, and they have access to capital. Little Rock deserves a seat at the table when you talk about cities with those things.”
Check back for more next week.