Cometh the Pegasus
In early 2025, we pitched employers on hiring our 2026/27 cohort, and they loved us.
We offered pega6 grads who are job-ready entry-level employees that:
Are AI-first.
Require no employer training.
Have the technical AND soft skills of 2nd/3rd-year employees.
And things were going swimmingly . . . until the Summer. We began to run into a problem as we reached out to employers asking them to guarantee employment for our graduates.
The collective mantra went from: “Where have you been all my life?” to . . .
“we don’t hire entry-level employees”
We’d try to explain, “Well, that’s the point of what we’re doing. We’re giving you employees who are entry-level IN NAME ONLY. Pega6 grads are AI-first with the skills of experienced employees.”
But it was too late. As soon as we uttered the words “entry-level employees”, they shut down.
It was as if we had said, “We have some Beanie Babies we can give you.” The light just went out of their eyes.
The problem was that when employers thought “entry-level”, they thought:
skill-less, self-entitled, and no experience using AI
And thus, dear reader, the conundrum with which we were faced.
How do we tell employers that we’re creating a completely new level of entry-level without uttering the words “entry-level”?
How do we tell them that although it may be better to use AI instead of hiring a traditional entry-level employee, it’s way better to hire a pega6 grad than to just use AI.?
ultimately, we knew we had to separate ourselves from the term “entry-level”
We needed to create a new word/phrase for what it was that we were creating;
Otherwise, pega6 would continue to get thrown out with the entry-level bathwater.
Some of our initial ideas were:
ELiNO (“entry-level in name only”)
Zero Ramp Employee
Deployment-Grade Employee
ONE (“operational-now employee”)
But honestly, none of them resonated with us. They were a little clunky, felt kind of forced, and just didn’t seem catchy.
until . . . we realized we had the answer all along
We knew we should use the word that was the inspiration for our name. In the earliest days, we were trying to decide what to name our company. We wanted it to be some play on words related to what it was we were building.
Well, we oftentimes said we’re building the corollary to the UNICORN (the billion-dollar company).
Our revolutionary take on higher ed would create the PEGASUS (the million-dollar employee).
And thus the name pega6 was born.
And there it was. We already had a name for this new level of professional we were creating.
the pegasus
So, employers won’t be hiring an entry-level employee from us.
They’ll be hiring a pegasus:
