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Company | Udemy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| http://www.udemy.com | ||||
| Founded: | 01/31/2010 | |||
| City: | Palo Alto, California | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| CEO: | Eren Bali | |||
| Founders: | Oktay Caglar and Gagan Biyani | |||
| Category: | Digital Content (Blogs, Websites) | Funding: | Bootstrapping | |
| Tags: | content, education, learning, consumer, web, web 2.0 | Employees: | 2-5 | |
What does Udemy do?
Udemy enables anyone to teach and learn online. We built a platform so anyone can build an online course. You can create a course about anything – photoshop design, web development, entrepreneurship or picking up girls. It’s fast, easy and free.
Instructors have a ton of tools to build a course. They can upload videos, post PowerPoint or PDF files, write articles or host live virtual classroom sessions with students. We launched last month (May) and had over 20,000 unique visitors since launch.
How are they different?
Udemy provides an easy-to-use and free way to build an online course. Current options either cost money or are clunky and hard to use. More importantly, Udemy provides many methods for teaching – video, PowerPoint, blogging, and live conferencing. This provides instructors with a unique toolset to easily educate over the internet.
Why could Udemy be BIG?
Education is a $2 trillion industry plagued by burgeoning costs and a defunct system. It’s ripe for disruption by a young, scrappy startup leveraging technology to change the market. If our platform succeeds, it will be the driving force behind the change of a $2 Trillion industry.
How they plan to make money:
We enable our educators to charge for their courses and take 20% of whatever they make.
Our thoughts:
No thoughts at the moment. Very interesting!
Please visit their website to learn more: http://www.udemy.com
