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When 100,000 people signed up for my Stanford machine learning course online, I realized education was about to change forever.

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AI is the new electricity. Just as electricity transformed every industry 100 years ago, AI will transform every industry now.

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Completion rates for online courses are low because we are comparing them to the wrong thing. Compare them to a textbook sitting on a shelf. Our rates are incredible.

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A kid in a village in India deserves the same quality education as a kid at Stanford. The internet makes that possible. We just had to build the platform.

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The traditional university model — pay $200,000 for four years in a classroom — is not the only way to learn. It never should have been.

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We partnered with the best universities in the world because credibility matters. A certificate from Stanford or Google means something. That is what gets people hired.