Udemy S-1 IPO

Amazing to think that 10 years ago that there were two new format Stanford open access courses that launched at the same time: AI Class (Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun) and ML Class (Andrew Ng). Thrun and Ng went on to launch Udemy and Coursera, respectively.

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Post by forkLding » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

moneywoes wrote: post #3

Is the online course market not over saturated with LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight etc

I just bought 300 dollars worth of courses couple days ago on Udemy, I've used all these companies and I have to say Udemy is better than them. There is definitely a market based on teaching quality difference and the teaching tools provided.

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Post by belter » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 1:04 PM UTC

jstx1 wrote: post #2

I'll wait for the 90% discount on the stock.

I was going to say they it all would be at 9.95 for the next 24 hours...But interestingly I just checked, and it seems there are no promotions, and courses that were sold days ago at 9.95 are now 120 and up. Is there maybe an IPO coming up? :-)

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Post by forkLding » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 1:05 PM UTC

lotophage wrote: post #5

Amazing to think that 10 years ago that there were two new format Stanford open access courses that launched at the same time: AI Class (Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun) and ML Class (Andrew Ng). Thrun and Ng went on to launch Udemy and Coursera, respectively.

Sebastian Thrun founded Udacity. Udemy was founded by other people.

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Post by tylfin » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 1:09 PM UTC

moneywoes wrote: post #3

Is the online course market not over saturated with LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight etc

This is actually something they address in the Risk Factors section (here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1607939/000119312521...) if you're curious about what they have to say.

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Post by afs27 » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 1:10 PM UTC

forkLding wrote: post #6

moneywoes wrote: post #3

Is the online course market not over saturated with LinkedIn Learning, Pluralsight etc

I just bought 300 dollars worth of courses couple days ago on Udemy, I've used all these companies and I have to say Udemy is better than them. There is definitely a market based on teaching quality difference and the teaching tools provided.

I noticed a lot of the courses I was looking at on Coursera seemed to be from universities and the ones on Udemy looked like they were more from companies (Google, etc.) or professionals from different organizations. Is that a fair assessment?