Codecademy

“People don't want to code. The reality is I spent the last whatever working at Code Academy and Replit. I mean, it's good. I think we taught a lot of people how to code and at Replit, we built a ton of infrastructure around how do you set up a virtual machine,…”

“This startup Code Academy like, maybe a couple months after I open sourced all the infrastructure that we built and, like, I click on the site, and it was, like, going viral, right, and they built this, like, interactive way to learn how to program, because le…”

“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. It was mostly to consumer, but selling into educational systems is just so hard.”

“They contracted me to use the core engine to add Python to Codecademy. And I did that back in Jordan as a contractor. I was getting paid 15 dollars an hour, which was a lot of money for me at the time.”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“We looked at education for about three years before we made our first education investment, and then we quickly made about five or six. So we have Edmodo, Duolingo, Codecademy, Skillshare, Stack Exchange, if you want to call that education.”