I grew up in a village in Turkey with no teachers. The internet was my classroom. Udemy exists so no one has to learn alone like I did.
Anyone can teach on Udemy. That means some courses are amazing and some are terrible. But the marketplace sorts it out — ratings do not lie.
We have 200,000 courses because we believe the best teacher for any topic is someone who just mastered it, not someone with a PhD who forgot what it is like to be confused.
The $9.99 sale gets a lot of criticism. But it means a student in Bangladesh can learn Python for the price of lunch. That is the point.
Udemy for Business is where the real growth is. Companies spend billions on employee training. We can deliver it better and cheaper than anyone.
I taught myself math on the internet and won a Math Olympiad silver medal. Then I moved to Silicon Valley to make sure every kid in every village could do the same.