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Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by omarhaneef »

buf wrote: post #39

Udemy is the reason why I helped start Reforge and Closing Credits. I can't believe I'm seeing the S1 and it fuels me even more. Curated cohort-based live instructors that give revshare to industry experts > static unqualified mess.

I had not heard of these before but Reforge looks very cooked.

I was impressed by the names you got on there, and that you are actually selective and seem to say no to some people. (For those who are wondering: I am not a plant, and I do not know buf.)

Can you say a little about the placement rates, and what people end up doing after the program.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by ai_ia »

Ecstatify wrote: post #31

I find that the courses on Udemy are very amateurish. I was following a course, what the guy was saying was wrong, I was seconding guessing myself and then towards the end of the course he corrected his mistake. Coursera and Pluralsight are much better at least they have some quality standards.

> Coursera and Pluralsight are much better at least they have some quality standards.

I agree 100% with Pluralsight. My previous company had given me access to entire Pluralsight courses and I really completed a lot of courses.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by omarhaneef »

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.

I agree. If you want to pick something brand spanking new, your best bet is Udemy. I remember when Vue first hit the scene and Udemy had 3 courses on it but the others did not. The same with a "small" topic like containers when they first came out and so forth.

They can't match the depth of Udacity -- which, in my experience, is as deep as top graduate level courses -- they do have coverage.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by 1cvmask »

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.

According to wikipedia:

It was founded in May 2010 by Eren Bali, Gagan Biyani, and Oktay Caglar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udemy

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by [deleted] »

duxup wrote: post #41
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…

> I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors Can you explain how? The general world of being a content creator for someone else's platform is ... well the bar is pretty low. You're pretty much on your own everywhere aren't you? Most of these sites are ultra top heavy with the top creators also generating the most revenue.

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Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by omarhaneef »

moneywoes wrote: post #3

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

That is a great question.

I mean in the physical world, we have lots of schools because we were constrained by distance. But we don't consider all the schools interchangeable. A farm kid from Iowa would happily travel to Georgia to study at Georgia Tech because it was recognized that the experience was superior even if they had the same materials and curriculum.

So I think there is a role for different versions of the same class. Some people may even mix and match: multi variate calculus from Coursera, machine learning from Udacity, presentations from linkedin and Angular from pluralsight or whatever.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by ironmagma »

ai_ia wrote: post #50
dbetteridge wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 - Youtube + mailing list - Build your own site - ??

- Blog on the niche and build reputation It's amazing to see how instructors like Wes Bos, Kent C Dodds and Josh Comameu's CSS Course pulled off. - Create youtube channel and drive traffic from their to your course

YouTube has a lot of the same issues as Udemy with regard to creator treatment. Building your own audience sounds like the ideal, but obviously there are network effects to being on a platform and those can’t be simply written off.

Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: Udemy S-1 IPO

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Post by shantnutiwari »

jstx1 wrote: post #30
roel_v wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their promotions are usually time limited. And you'll have to make a separate account because the promotions are for new users only. So now you have your content spread over multiple accounts. But you can use Udeler so that you have local copies of everything, much better anyway.

I think it's more than just new users - I've gotten larger discounts from logging into the same account through a different browser.

you dont even need a new browser or private window.

I just add the courses I want to the wishlist, logout, wait a few days, and when I sign back in, I get all my wishlisted courses for 90% off

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