Udacity
company on 10 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes · said 47 times in 31 episodes since 2016
the a16z Podcast 24 
Top Founders 5 
20VC 5 
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Startups For the Rest of Us 3 
My First Million 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
In Depth 1 
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- 20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- Img.ly is Image Editing SDK, $2m in Revenues, Bootstrapped, GitHub Growth Channel
- Episode 503 | Idea Validation, Expanding Internationally, Affiliate Programs, and More
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2019 17 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking in the Game of Tech... and Life
- What's Next for Education Startups in 2019 (Part II)
- What's Next for Education Startups
- a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio
- a16z Podcast | Capitalizing on an Autonomous Vehicle Future
- a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- a16z Podcast | From Jobs to Flying Cars
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- 947 Is He The New King of Education? 80k Student Customers and $24m in Revenue Says "Yes!"
- 20VC: The Biggest Trend Of Our Lifetime Is The Decentralisation of Entrepreneurship Away From The Valley, The Biggest Lessons From Learnings The Craft of VC at Sequoia & The Benchmarks Required to Attract Growth Investors with Chris Olsen, Founding Partne
- 20VC: Why, How and When To Think About Growth Teams, The Right Way To Think About Network Effects & Scaling from Phase 1 To Phase 2 of Startup Life with Anu Hariharan, Partner @ YC Continuity Fund
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2017 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- AI: What's Working, What's Not
- EP 620: ConversionXL Doing $200k+/Mo With 3 Products, Live Masterclass, Agency, and Self-Serve with CEO Peep Leja
- 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
- On Career Moves and Business Leadership
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6 statements about Udacity, every show
Ranjan: Flipkart's Uninterviewed Udacity Hires Became Top Performers In Their Cohort
“We hired a bunch of people. They came through and they were all part of the freshers cohort. So they're part of the, one year later, they were the best performers of the freshers cohort.”
Zachary wrote a $5 million check to Udacity without a business plan
“And after that, I basically gave him a check for five million dollars within an hour of him presenting at our firm with basically no business plan.”
Chen: Lifelong learning imperative drives a16z's Udacity investment thesis
“They'll send you to classes and so on, and we know that's going to change. We know that the world is so dynamic Now that you can't learn everything that you need to be a productive worker or citizen by age 22, and you're going to have to learn ongoing, right? …”
Udacity Spinout Voyage Launched Autonomous Taxi Service in Nine Months
“They spun out of Udacity, created this company called Voyage. Nine months after they spun out, they turned on a self-driving taxi service in a retirement community in San Jose.”
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…”