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Morning Report: General Assembly’s exit is not the first of its kind. Here are a few others.

News that General Assembly, a coding school based in New York, sold to Adecco (a “Swiss staffing firm,” per today’s Daily) for around $413 million. That huge sum was a a smidgen under the firm’s last private valuation, but a goodly multiple .

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It’s a big transaction and a good moment for its market space. But it’s not the first.

At least two other coding schools have had exits in recent memory, perhaps helping the General Assembly sale explain itself in terms of market value. (Bear in mind that it’s not exactly news that General Assembly was looking for an exit, as Reuters’聽Salvador Rodriguez and Liana B. Baker .)

In January of 2016, Pluralsight () . Pluralsight is a juggernaut of what TechCrunch called the “online technology training” space, making the deal quite reasonable given its acquirer’s focus.

More recently, in October of 2017,聽, bringing coding education to the large, largely coworking-focused unicorn. Terms of that deal were not disclosed.

The General Assembly deal’s occurrence this year means that at least one coding school in each of the last three years has found an exit. Not bad for the category given the scale of the latest transaction.

And as Pluralsight is going public likely this quarter, the tech education market looks increasingly stable and mature.

From The聽:

• Coding school聽聽is selling to Swiss staffing firm Adecco in a deal valued at $413 million. Founded in 2011 in New York, General Assembly previously raised about $120 million in venture funding.

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