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every year every show the MAD Podcast 13 20VC 12 In Depth 11 My First Million 9 the a16z Podcast 9 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 Startups For the Rest of Us 5 No Priors 4 
Top Founders 3 
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the Pitch 1 
How I Built This 1 
TBPN 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Codecademy comes up on the MAD Podcast, 20VC, In Depth, My First Million, the a16z Podcast
Replit CEO: Why the SaaS Apocalypse is Justified & Why Coding Models are Plateauing | Amjad Masad · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:14 Amjad Masad And initially when I came to the US, I was, I worked at Code Academy.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 1:00:35 Amjad Masad Udacity was coming online, Coursera, and, and most famously, Code Academy. 8 times in the scene
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 20:18 Amjad Masad And, um, I, I was a founding engineer at Code Academy, and before that I built open source tools to do that. 2 times in the scene
How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
- ▶ 26:43 Matt Mazzeo Code Academy and like, you know,
Misfits Market: Abhi Ramesh
- ▶ 13:00 Abhi Ramesh Have kind of been teaching myself how to code as well, using a lot of these tutorials online, things like Code Academy, and we were like, do we think that there is an opportunity to actually build kind of like a, can we focus on, on…
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 2:42 Amjad Masad The reality is I spent the last, uh, whatever working at Code Academy and Replit.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 5:34 Amjad Masad Uh, one day, you know, I, as, as always, I'm, like, lurking on Hacker News, um, and I see, you know, this startup Code Academy, uh, like, maybe a couple months after I open sourced all the, all the infrastructure that we built, um, and,… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:22 Matt Turck So Goodcademy was the, the way in?
- ▶ 11:12 Amjad Masad Uh, and so, I was, uh, really passionate about joining Codecademy, and at the time, you saw a ton of people come online, and in Africa, and India, and, um, and then Android had just, uh, started going, and, and, uh, it felt like everyone's… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:23 Amjad Masad I kind of, like, burnt out while working at Codecademy, and I, I wanted to do, to do other things, and, um, but, like, actually the project kept growing.
- ▶ 30:45 Amjad Masad So as part of my work at both Facebook and Code Academy, I worked in compilers and interpreters, and there are very, you know, kind of finicky programming exercise.
No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
- ▶ 25:24 Eric Simons I mean, get to, to, at that time, there's not like Code Academy and all the stuff that's for free online. 2 times in the scene
He made his first loan at 16. Now his fintech startup does $50M+ ARR—here’s how. | Tate Hackert, ... · PMF Show
- ▶ 21:46 Tate Hackert And so I'd coded up, uh, I, I took like this, I think it was code academy course.
Can Generative AI Transform Education? Immersion Ed's Bold Pitch
- ▶ 23:01 Jesse Middleton Of all the ed tech stuff that we've invested in, you know, Codecademy was one of the larger ones and tried selling in education.
10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
- ▶ 58:46 Shaan Puri It was, he worked at code Academy and code Academy was teaching people to code online 2 times in the scene
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:42 Todd Jackson Before Replit, Amjad's engineering career landed him in roles at Yahoo, Code Academy, and eventually Facebook, where he helped start their incredible JavaScript infrastructure team.
- ▶ 7:07 Amjad Masad Codecademy was part of that movement and they had just finished YC 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:25 Todd Jackson Okay, so Code Academy in 2011, and that's sort of enabled you to immigrate to the United States, and then you were there for a couple years, and then you joined the JS infrastructure team at Facebook, right?
- ▶ 13:47 Amjad Masad I thought it was a dead end because when we try to scale it at, at Code Academy, the idea of downloading tens of megabytes of JavaScript 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:21 Amjad Masad But then, uh, Bloomberg Beta and Roy Bahat, who, who I knew from my time at Codecademy, he was an investor there, ended up investing, I think it was like, 600 K on a six million valuation.
No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad
- ▶ 1:30 Amjad Masad That got me a job at Code Academy.
- ▶ 2:40 Amjad Masad Whether it's at Codecademy for teaching programming, whether it's my own project, whether it's React and building the runtime around React Native,
The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:19 Michael Seibel Code Academy, there's so many.
Episode 652 | Mixing No-code with Code, Developer Superpowers, $5...
- ▶ 33:56 Rob Walling Currently messing around on Code Academy doing a SQL course, but I was wondering what learning resources or possible mentorships you could recommend. 3 times in the scene
Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- ▶ 15:24 Rob Walling We live in an incredible age, and in fact, in an age that I didn't even live in 21 years ago, where you can go now onto Codecademy, and Coursera, and Udemy, and where are the other places?
553: Stack Overflow and Moz Acquired, Quitting Instead of Giving Up Remote Work, and More
- ▶ 10:31 Tracy Osborn I mean, it still has a stake in Tencent, but they also have other education companies like Brainly, Codecademy, Udemy, Remitly, PayU.
How a City Tour is Making Millions, & Selling Manhood | My First Million # 177
- ▶ 17:32 Shaan Puri Like we talked about Codecademy, uh, or is it Codec Academy? 6 times in the scene
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
- ▶ 5:42 Peter Reinhardt Yeah, actually the founders that I'm most impressed by and how they handled that were actually the Codecademy founders who were in our batch of Y Combinator. 4 times in the scene
HackerEarth 4.5m Developer Community Breaks $5m Run Rate, 100% Net Retention
- ▶ 2:24 Nathan Latka So would you sort of say this is sort of a combination of like Codecademy plus Lambda School?
1455 How Groove Scaled To 400 Customers, $5M in ARR on $3.8M Raised
- ▶ 4:56 Nathan Latka Did you use like Code Academy or Treehouse or any of these tools?
What's Next for Education Startups
- ▶ 5:04 D'Arcy Coolican And so I think, you know, another trend that you're seeing, and again, I think this is a lot of kind of boot camps and Code Academy and Lambda School and things like that, you're seeing a trend towards, on the, on the later end, around…
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 42:57 Peter Reinhardt Like Zach Sims from Codecademy.
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
- ▶ 2:44 Nathan Latka And so, I mean, it's like Code Academy.
How Should Business Schools Prepare Students for Startups? – Jeff Bussgang and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:35 Jeff Bussgang So, now, 15 or 20 are taking Code Academy courses or
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
20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise
- ▶ 16:59 Hiten Shah So I'm super bullish on, like, any kind of education that's going to help people, whether it's things like Treehouse or Codecademy or any of this stuff, because, you know, if, if, if programming software, things like that is a discipline…
Index's Martin Mignot on Sourcing Rocketship Companies, Evaluating Founders and His Attitude Towards Risk At The Early Stage
- ▶ 0:34 Harry Stebbings If that wasn't enough, he has worked on over 50 transactions to date, including SoundCloud, Just Eat, Codecademy, Flipboard, and many more.
20VC FF 028: Where To Start Your Startup and Single Founder vs Co-Founder Model with Richard Hanson, Co-Founder & CEO @ HiringScreen
- ▶ 12:15 Richard Hanson For, for myself, not having a technical background, I mean, I went on to Code Academy and, um, you know, I took the HTML and, um, you know, CSS course, um, just so that I actually knew what, you know, title tags were and how to do basic…
20 VC 094: Kanyi Maqubela @ Collaborative Fund on Rocketships, Feedback Loops and Turning Lemons Into Lemonade!
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings They've made investments in the likes of AngelList, CodeAcademy, OldSchool, Reddit, and TaskRabbit, just to name a few.
James Altucher: Ideas, Investing and Entrepreneurs
- ▶ 18:01 James Altucher Khan Academy, Code Academy, um, Udemy, um, and then, and then there's many colleges that have their entire curriculum online and, and with videos and homework and everything.
- ▶ 22:48 James Altucher And I'm not even trying to advertise them, like, you can do it on Code Academy also, like, there's a million companies like that out there.
Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
- ▶ 18:10 Fred Wilson So we have Edmodo, Duolingo, Codecademy, Skillshare, Stack Exchange, if you want to call that, uh, education.
Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:23 Nick Winter So like Codecademy, but actually a game.
- ▶ 1:46 George Saines I had been a semi-technical co-founder at my first startup, and I tried Codecademy, I tried a whole bunch of these, and I just couldn't stay, stick with it.