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Congrats Garry - pretty amazing story!

We pay a stipend for the whole summer ($2K). I've heard everything from unpaid to $4K for the summer. More than that for a business intern, in my opinion, is unnecessary and doesn'…

Dear HN Community, I'm co-founder of Udemy, which is seeking to disrupt online learning by making it possible for anyone to teach over the internet. It's a huge vision and a big op…

No - not for free courses. This course is meant to be free forever.

We were a Founder Institute company and I thought the Founder Institute sessions were extremely valuable. Those videos are very informative - the people teaching them have all had …

Dear friends on Hacker News, DO NOT worry about the 1000 person limit. We'll release more codes if we need to. You are all welcome :). I'm a huge fan of HN. Just please enjoy the c…

See my response to the previous comment. Not to be cocky - but I think I know enough Google employees now that I probably could find a position there. However, I don't in any way w…

:) I no longer want to apply for a job at Google - that was 2 years ago when I was still interested in going through that route. Now I'm co-founder of a company called udemy.com an…

I applied to Google and got rejected. Its a pretty interesting story so I thought I'd share: I applied through the traditional on-campus recruiting at UC Berkeley. Got past the fir…

All of the OCW courses are available on Udemy: http://www.udemy.com/courses/Academics.html . (Disclosure: I am the co-founder of Udemy) If I'm not wrong, we have the largest librar…

Good question! The simple answer is that our cofounders are immigrants and we need to support their H1B visa for them to be full-time. Unfortunately, we cannot support their visa w…

You're right - if we gave up 80% of the company, it would be an awful raise. However, it's a pretty fair assumption that we didn't do that. We chose to take in $1M instead of $300K…

Thanks man! Appreciate it...

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