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Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by abhi_arora »

afs27 wrote: post #10
forkLding wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I'm in Tech Consulting with a background in Computer Science (specifically Data Science) and I'd have to say that the courses on Udemy are much more aligned with how things are done in the industry.

And yes, most of the courses that I have taken there are taught by professionals with industry experience.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by arboghast »

One thing I particularly appreciate from Udemy compared to other platforms is that there are many great (and not so great) courses covering obscure topics that are not available in Coursera, Edx, etc.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by WA »

arboghast wrote: post #12

One thing I particularly appreciate from Udemy compared to other platforms is that there are many great (and not so great) courses covering obscure topics that are not available in Coursera, Edx, etc.

Like what?

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by arnvald »

afs27 wrote: post #10
forkLding wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Coursera also has a number of courses provided by companies, even by Google (https://www.coursera.org/google-career-certificates).

You're right that Coursera has content from universities, on the other hand Udemy has individual instructors (and anyone can become an instructor). Also Coursera has a lot of free content - not sure if 100%, but a large number of courses offers the content for free, you only need to pay if you want to do assignments and get a certificate.

Oh, and Coursera does not have 90% off promos every other week, unlike Udemy

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by anyfactor »

jstx1 wrote: post #2

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

A reasonable buying point would -30%. Then sell when it rebounds +20% from that point. Then do that a few more times until softbank gets involved.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by arnvald »

jstx1 wrote: post #2

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

I've literally never paid a full price for a Udemy course. I'd only do it if I was in rush to start some course quickly, but otherwise I just wait, usually less than 2 weeks, and I can pay 70-90% less

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by baron_harkonnen »

moneywoes wrote: post #3

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

I don't think that's as relevant as the current demand for VCs to unload their investments as fast as possible before the next major economic catastrophe.

It boggles my mind that we're set to nearly double the record number of IPOs this year, and last year was the highest number since 1999, yet in general no one finds this at all interesting or alarming.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by nickjj »

One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy.

I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instructors they reach out to privately and sign a contract with in which case they do extra things for you like promote and rank your course more so than related courses in your category. Their entire platform is based on manipulating both instructors and watchers of courses.

I would seriously suggest anyone thinking about creating courses to avoid using any type of course marketplaces (ACG is especially bad too). It's worth it to build your own audience because on Udemy and other platforms you're actually not building your own business, you're building their business because you won't receive any information about anyone who signs up which means your students are 100% locked into that platform. If you leave you're essentially starting at ground zero in which case you might as well start at ground zero on your own terms.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by FlacoJones »

arnvald wrote: post #16
jstx1 wrote: post #2

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

I've literally never paid a full price for a Udemy course. I'd only do it if I was in rush to start some course quickly, but otherwise I just wait, usually less than 2 weeks, and I can pay 70-90% less

I just create a new account with a new email and you'll see the "flash sales" again.

Just use a temp email: https://temp-mail.org/en/

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by arnvald »

nickjj wrote: post #18

One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy. I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instruc…

Thanks for sharing! I'm planning to create a couple of courses next year and I considered using Udemy, because I use it quite a bit as a student, but I see I need to do some research before I lock myself in some platform.

By the way: ACG = A Cloud Guru?

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