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Company · Technology · Software · founded 2012

Coursera

Online learning company founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, offering courses, certificates and degrees with universities and other partners.

Of the 1 person here linked to Coursera, 1 is a founder and 1 is still there. 1 of them also appear at Amazon. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

1 person at Coursera

Founder

Role

Co-founder, former CEO, chairman, 2012–now
Source · medium confidence. Coursera's Wikipedia page lists him as co-founder and chairman and cites a May 2026 SEC filing. His own Wikipedia page says he was CEO and gives no end year for that role.
Still there
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Andrew Ng
Co-founder of Google Brain and Coursera; former Baidu chief scientist; founder of DeepLearning.AI, Landing AI, and AI Fund
professional-class · elite · graduate degree

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