The Most Precious Skill You Can Learn!
If we could teach everybody one skill, what would that be? Eren Bali, CEO & Co-founder of Udemy, discusses how “learning to learn by yourself” is that skill in the age of this open, accessible, connected world of the internet.
About our speaker:
Eren Bali is the CEO and co-founder of Udemy, a startup that aims to democratize educations by allowing anybody to teach and learn online. Udemy, started in late 2010, reached over 5000 courses and a total of 500,000 students by late 2012. This led the company to raise a total of $16 from investors in Silicon Valley and New York. Prior to Udemy, Eren worked at SpeedDate as a founding engineer and Director of Engineering while the company grew form 0 to 15 million users in 3 years and raised more than $14M. Eren graduated from METU (Turkey) with a degree in Computer Science and a double major degree in Mathematics. He won several awards in Mathematics, Physics and CS including a 2nd position in International Mathematical Olympiads.