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David Rogier

Founder & CEO, MasterClass · 1 appearance on the record.

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founderexecutiveinvestor@drogier ↗LinkedIn ↗masterclass.com ↗

David Rogier founded MasterClass in 2015, scaling it into an online education platform featuring video classes taught by renowned experts. He has raised hundreds of millions in venture capital and also serves as an active angel investor.

13statements → 9claims → 6claims resolved → 100%fully supported → 4.23/5average certainty → 1.31/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

6 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 3 not checkable as stated how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 6 are resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how David argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Investor Michael Dearing gave Rogier $500,000 to find a business idea
“Michael wrote me a check for about half a million bucks and told me to go think of an idea”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 4:47 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of David Rogier on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything David Rogier said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Rogier: MasterClass instructors teach out of desire, not for the money
“If the instructors want to earn a lot of money, there are tons of options for them to go do. The instructors are teaching and doing this because they actually want to teach.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 15:06 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
Investor Michael Dearing gave Rogier $500,000 to find a business idea
“Michael wrote me a check for about half a million bucks and told me to go think of an idea”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 4:47 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
Rogier: Serena Williams reviewed student video submissions at home for MasterClass
“I'll give you an example with her, for example, I mean, she had people in her class upload clips of them playing and she sat at home, watch it and gave notes to people in, in, In, inside her class.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 16:24 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Disclosure
Rogier would instantly reject a $300 million buyout offer for MasterClass
“No way.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 23:51 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
Rogier: Every MasterClass course costs a flat rate of $90
“Every class costs the exact same at 90 dollars.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 3:22 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Disclosure
Rogier: MasterClass has raised at least approximately $50M in capital
“Approximately at least fifty million.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 8:01 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
MasterClass was instantly profitable on a user's first purchase at launch
“It made it so that on the first per, when somebody buys a class, we are able to make money on the first.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 12:15 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rogier: MasterClass spent under $100k on launch-day paid marketing
“Less than a 100,000.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 13:53 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
Rogier: James Patterson selected a MasterClass student as his next co-author
“He was so impressed by the students in this class that he actually picked one student to be his next co-author.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 18:59 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rogier: 50% to 80% of MasterClass students are first-time online learners
“About half to 80% of our students have never taken an online class before.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 22:53 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
Rogier: MasterClass customers receive lifetime access to purchased courses
“They choose what they want, and they have access forever to it.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 3:35 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Disclosure
Rogier: MasterClass headcount is 68 and will exceed 100 by year-end
“We're now at 68 and by the end of the year we'll be at over 100.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 8:41 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?
Assertion Supported
MasterClass debuted with courses by Dustin Hoffman, James Patterson, and Serena Williams
“We had three classes up. Dustin Hoffman. James, James. James Patterson and Sir, it was Sir. Serena Williams.”
David Rogier Sep 9, 2017 ▶ 12:31 777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars?

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
777: Will Masterclass Win Online Course Wars? Sep 9, 2017 13m
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