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January 31, 2024

How Udemy’s Culture of Curiosity Drives Fulfilling Career Growth

This piece was originally written by Jenny Lyons-Cunha on Built In In the story of Ben Lathrop’s life, his arrival at Udemy was a serendipitous plot twist It was a classic gray San Franciscan evening in 2014 when Lathrop arrived for his late-night shift at Trader Joe’s Lathrop, then a crew member for the...

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January 9, 2024

Udemy Named to Built In’s Annual List of Best Places to Work in 2024

Ranked no 17 on the list of top US employers and honored regionally in Austin, Colorado and San Francisco for the second consecutive year SAN FRANCISCO –– January 9, 2024 –– Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a leading online skills marketplace and learning platform, today announced its inclusion on Built In’s...

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October 17, 2023

#LifeAtUdemy Spotlight: Meet Our Global Enterprise Sales Organization

Our sales team helps companies solve their critical skills gap and make an impact on millions of learners' lives As our team grows worldwide, we sat down with three teammates in our enterprise sales team to talk about their roles, the impact they make, and the opportunities to develop their careers at Udemy About...

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April 7, 2016

Teaching, learning, and sketching together

We’ve written before about Udemy employees who’ve published courses on their own They help us better understand how instructors go through the process of course creation and how best to support students over the long haul while also having some fun sharing what they know Now, we have another Udemy insider getting...

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November 9, 2015

Helping middle-schoolers spark their talents

Guest post by Lauren Rosenfield, Udemy Instructor Account Development Associate If you stop by Udemy’s San Francisco office on a Wednesday afternoon around 4:15 pm, you might be surprised to find 20 seventh and eighth graders from Roosevelt Middle School making a beeline straight to the snacks Middle-schoolers...

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October 15, 2015

We won! We won!

On Friday, October 9, the 17th Dot IE Net Visionary awards ceremony was held in Dublin Udemy had been shortlisted for the “Best International Newcomer” award so three people from the Udemy Dublin office attended (Jenny Ryan, Paula Hatch, and Burak Bostancioglu) to represent the company Here’s Jenny’s report on...

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September 3, 2015

Welcome our new GM of Udemy for Business, Darren Shimkus!

This week, we announced the arrival of Darren Shimkus as our new vice president and general manager of Udemy for Business Now, let’s spend a few minutes getting to know him a little better How did you hear about Udemy I met Dennis (CEO Dennis Yang) earlier in my career, and I began following Udemy when he...

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July 27, 2015

Welcome our new VP of Content Grégory Boutté!

Please join us in welcoming Grégory Boutté to the Udemy team as our vice president of content! Grégory will be responsible for how we work with instructors to acquire great content and how we manage our library to deliver the best content to our students Grégory most recently was the chief revenue officer at...

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July 21, 2015

Welcome our new VP of Product Rob Wong!

We are excited to announce a new member of the executive team, Rob Wong! Rob is joining as the vice president of product and will be managing Udemy’s product and design initiatives As our CEO Dennis Yang put it, Rob “had the rare combination of product vision, team-building chops, and the humility to be part...

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July 1, 2015

Here’s how Udemy gives

On June 26, all Udemy offices (San Francisco, Ankara, and Dublin) spent a day volunteering locally At Udemy, part of our culture is to give back to our community, particularly around education and youth empowerment We love interacting with our neighbors and helping them reach their goals, so volunteering isn’t a...

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June 26, 2015

Udemy summer interns are here!

Ah, summer… time to kick back, relax, and soak up the sun, right Well, for the current batch of Udemy interns, this is a season for learning about the workplace and soaking up knowledge We are so excited to have these bright, hungry minds in our office for the next ten weeks and look forward to their contributions...

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June 17, 2015

What’s the best thing you learned from your dad?

In honor of Father’s Day, we got to thinking about how dads (and other father figures) serve as teachers for so many of us in all different areas of our lives Here are just a few things we at Udemy have learned from our fathers, both highly useful life lessons and silly stuff that makes us good party guests Thanks...

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