Codecademy

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 1, 2016 by Richard Hanson · said 12 times in 8 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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brought up most by Peter Reinhardt (4), James Altucher (2), Harry Stebbings (2), Richard Hanson (1), Pat Grady (1), Hiten Shah (1), Amjad Masad (1)

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2026 1 mention in 1 episode

Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 25, 2026 · 1 mention · from 2:14
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2021 4 mentions in 1 episode

20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making Apr 22, 2021 · 4 mentions · from 5:42
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2017 1 mention in 1 episode

20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software Mar 13, 2017 · 1 mention · from 18:54
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2016 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode

20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise Mar 4, 2016 · 1 mention · from 16:59
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage Feb 1, 2016 · 1 mention · from 0:34
20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen Jan 1, 2016 · 1 mention · from 12:15
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2015 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs Jun 4, 2015 · 2 mentions · from 18:01
20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade! Dec 7, 2015 · 1 mention · from 0:16
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Jan 1, 2016

Disclosure

Hanson Learned Basic HTML and CSS on Codecademy for Technical Literacy

“For myself, not having a technical background, I mean, I went on to Code Academy and you know, I took the HTML and you know, CSS course just so that I actually knew what, you know, title tags were and how to do basic CSS.”

Richard Hanson Jan 1, 2016 ▶ 12:15 20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen

Jul 18, 2016 negative

Opinion

Bussgang rejects requirement for day-one positive unit economics for startups

“I totally disagree with that VC, and I'll give you an example. So, and the reason I disagree is that there are cases where equity value creation is achieved through adoption-focused strategies. I'll give you two examples. One is in our portfolio, one is MongoD…”

Jeff Busgang Jul 18, 2016 ▶ 14:58 20VC: Flybridge's Jeff Bussgang on Why It Is Not All About Unit Economics & Why VCs Are Big Data Decision Makers

Apr 22, 2021 positive

Assertion Partly supported

Codecademy launched three days before YC Demo Day after 12 pivots

“They started and killed, like, 12 ideas over the course of Y Combinator, and then three days before Demo Day launched Codecademy, and got to 300 and something thousand signups in the 72 hours before they presented at Demo Day.”

Peter Reinhardt Apr 22, 2021 ▶ 5:50 20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making

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