Coursera
3 statements across 2 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 13, 2017 by Luis von Ahn · said 15 times in 10 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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2025 6 mentions in 1 episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
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2017 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Duolingo's Luis von Ahn on How CEO's Can Scale With The Company, How VC Herd Mentality In The Valley Really Works and How Chatbots & AI Play A Role In The Future of EdTech
- 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
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: a16z's Balaji Srinivasan on Why There Is A Financial Incentive For Truth In VC & Why The Best VCs Invest In Founder To Make Them Richer Than Themselves
- 20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- every mention in 2016, scene by scene →
2015 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Oct 13, 2017 negative
Von Ahn: MOOC platforms like Coursera have abysmal 1.5% completion rates
“A lot of the MOOC companies, they're the massively online course companies like Coursera and Udacity, et cetera. The retention numbers for their courses are abysmal. I mean, of the number of people that sign up, something like one and a half percent or two per…”
Jun 16, 2025 positive