Platzi

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Latin America's School of Technology

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.

Platzi
Founded:2014
Team Size:123
Location:San Francisco

Active Founders

Christian Van Der Henst

Teacher, entrepreneur, foodie, traveler. Co-founded Platzi. Born in Guatemala and currently living in San Francisco. He is an Endeavor entrepreneur.

Christian Van Der Henst
Christian Van Der Henst
Platzi

Freddy Vega 💚, 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.

Freddy Vega 💚
Freddy Vega 💚
Platzi