Welcome to Udemy, the "Academy of You!"
What is Udemy?
Udemy's goal is to enable anyone to teach and learn online. In less than 5 minutes, you can create your own online course on Udemy. You can upload presentations, videos, host live classroom sessions and write articles. It's fast, easy and free.
By making it easy to teach online, Udemy also brings together the best teachers on the internet in an effort to educate the world. That means if you want to learn Multivariable Calculus, you can. If you want to learn Photoshop, you can. If you want to learn more about the metaphor for good and evil as presented by the dark and light colors in Star Wars, you can on Udemy.
Udemy provides the following tools for educators:- Content Platform: Publish videos, Presentations, Articles and our new presentation/video mashup tool.
- Live Virtual Classes: Interact LIVE with instructors through Udemy Live! Presentation-sharing, multiple live videos, chatroom and whiteboarding.
- Broaden Your Audience: Marketing, PR, and SEO. We integrate with Facebook, Twitter and connect with blogs to ensure you reach your audience.
About the Team
Eren Bali is CEO of Udemy. Prior to Udemy, Eren was a founding engineer of SpeedDate.com, and worked as Director of Engineering. He oversaw the site's growth from 0 to 8 million users and profitability in its first two years. Eren graduated from the Middle East Technical University with dual degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics. He demonstrated extraordinary math skills at an early age, winning many national and international accolades, including silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiads. Follow Eren
Gagan Biyani is President and Co-Founder of Udemy. Gagan grew up in the Silicon Valley and graduated from UC Berkeley in 3 years with a degree in Economics. He worked for Accenture Strategy Consulting for 1.5 years before going full-time on Udemy. He also currently writes part-time for TechCrunch's mobile site, MobileCrunch. While in school, he interned at Microsoft and Robert Half International. Gagan has taught over 300 paying students in Speech and Debate, SAT prep and English as a Foreign Language. Follow Gagan
Oktay Caglar is CTO and Co-Founder of Udemy. Oktay also graduated from Middle East Technical University with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration. A close friend of Eren, he quickly became an adept developer, and has extraordinary product development, planning and design skills. He has been integral to SpeedDate.com's viral marketing strategy. His work helped SpeedDate convert millions of users from Facebook to SpeedDate.com.