How Codecademy Moved from Bankruptcy to Building a $50m+ Revenue Business.
With software eating the world and very few ways to learn to create it, to Sims it was a very huge opportunity, so by 2011, he built Codecademy in YC, having gotten started, they posted it to Hacker News as a Hail Mary before the Demo Day and that got them about 200,000 signups in just 3 days.
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Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of Codecademy ; a leading platform for coding education, with over 50 million learners to date.
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Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of Codecademy ; a leading platform for coding education, with over 50 million learners to date.
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With software eating the world and very few ways to learn to create it, to Sims it was a very huge opportunity, so by 2011, he built Codecademy in YC, having gotten started, they posted it to Hacker News as a Hail Mary before the Demo Day and that got them about 200,000 signups in just 3 days.
Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of Codecademy ; a leading platform for coding education, with over 50 million learners to date.
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