Udemy

10 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Apr 5, 2017 by Pep Laja · said 45 times in 19 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Everything said about Udemy, oldest first

Apr 5, 2017 negative
Assertion Supported
Laja: Coursera, Udacity, and Udemy have completion rates under 15%
“Course completion rates in Coursera are less than 15%. Same for Udacity, Udemy, all those guys.”
Pep Laja Apr 5, 2017 ▶ 7:51 EP 620: ConversionXL Doing $200k+/Mo With 3 Products, Live Masterclass, Agency, and Self-Serve with CEO Peep Leja
Sep 17, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Leong: Udemy generates 90% of DevSlopes' marketplace revenue
“Udemy takes, like, I would say right now, like, 90% of it. And then the other 10% is, like, scattered across the Skillshare.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 10:58 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Sep 17, 2017 positive
Assertion Supported
DevSlopes' CEO grew his Udemy student base to over 100,000
“At the time when we started, when we decided to start, it was, he had 40,000 students on, on Udemy, and now that's, I think, a little north of a hundred, Thousand.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 7:58 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Sep 17, 2017 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Udemy favors promoting comprehensive 30- to 60-hour coding courses
“They like to promote like full on, you know, full blown, 30 to 60 hour courses that take you from like knowing absolutely nothing to like getting you up and running.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 10:25 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Sep 17, 2017
Assertion Supported
Udemy promotions routinely discount $200 courses to $10 or $15
“Udemy does their promotions, and so, like, a course that we would normally charge, like, 200 dollars for, all of a sudden, one month could be, you know, 10 or 15 dollars.”
Evan Leong Sep 17, 2017 ▶ 12:46 785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code
Jan 24, 2019 negative
Opinion
Latka: CreativeLive and Udemy discount models are a race to the bottom
“Especially just understanding creative lives, business model and Udemy's business model there, you know, they're constantly trying to use pricing leverage to get new people in and retain by just like discounting, discounting, discounting. And it's like a race …”
Nathan Latka Jan 24, 2019 ▶ 7:15 1279 He Does $6m in Event Revenue Annually, now SaaS
Nov 9, 2020 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Fullcast Counts MongoDB, Udemy, and Auth0 as Customers
“So you, we sell to customers like MongoDB, Udemy you know, essentially the mid market space odd zero.”
Dharmesh Singh Nov 9, 2020 ▶ 8:23 FullCast Hits $1.1m ARR, Pure SaaS From $1m Agency in Rev Ops Space
Sep 8, 2022 bearish
Opinion
Dulski: LMS platforms like Udemy have low usage and satisfaction
“There's, there are what are called learning management systems. These are flat content like Udemy or LinkedIn learning where you're watching videos and you're kind of solo doing this learning by yourself. It is Really low usage and pretty low satisfaction.”
Jennifer Dulski Sep 8, 2022 ▶ 12:40 She spent $100k on an agency for MVP, now has 11 FTE's and $1m ARR helping 55 brands teach their teams faster
Jan 4, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Zubarov: Udemy legally prohibits course creators from directly marketing to students
“We are not actually legally allowed to approach these people who are buying, of course, and legally in Udemy.”
Renat Zubairov Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 12:02 How To Make $30,000 Instantly off a Viral Linkedin Post
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Zubarov: RevOS earned thousands pre-selling a Udemy course for leads
“We actually did like a interesting pre-sell to that. I think we earned maybe some few thousand dollars of revenue with pre-sell this course.”
Renat Zubairov Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 11:17 How To Make $30,000 Instantly off a Viral Linkedin Post
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