Codecademy

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 19, 2013 by Fred Wilson · said 13 times in 2 episodes since 2013 · across every show →

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Dec 19, 2013
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Wilson: USV studied education for three years before investing in Duolingo
“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.”
Fred Wilson Dec 19, 2013 ▶ 18:02 Fred Wilson, USV // Data Driven NYC #18 // Sep 2013 (interviewed by Matt Turck)
Feb 6, 2025
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Codecademy launched using Masad's open-source infrastructure library
“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…”
Amjad Masad Feb 6, 2025 ▶ 5:34 The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
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