Platzi

Winter 2015 · Active

Latin America's School of Technology

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2014

Team size: 300

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About

Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.

Founders

Freddy VegaFounder/CEO
Platzi's CEO and cofounder (YC W15), the largest tech school in Latin America. Before, I built the largest Flash and Actionscript community in the web (Cristalab, Spanish only). I think we were the first company with a Latam market to be YC. Born in Colombia.
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Christian Van Der HenstFounder
Co-founder and COO of Platzi. Teacher, angel-investor, proud Latino. Born and raised in Guatemala, currently living in San Francisco. Been woking in tech since 1997. Build a large community of web developers in Spanish: Maestros del Web. That community evolved into Platzi, the largest school of Technology in Latin America. Nunca pares de Aprender.
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