What if I told you that one man’s frustration with an elevator breakdown led to the creation of the fastest-growing and most-beloved programming languages today? Seventeen years ago, Graydon Hoare’s ordinary evening turned pivotal when an out-of-order elevator at his apartment building forced him to trek up 21 stories. A Mozilla software engineer, Hoare’s frustration wasn’t just with the climb, but with the fact that the tools of his trade couldn’t even make an elevator that works without cras

Degree enrollments slowdown in the US, headwinds for Consumer and Business in Europe.

TL;DR  On the surface, Miro acquired an online learning platform. In reality, it acquired two founders, three AI products, and a team that shipped five products in nine months. Reforge Learning stays as a standalone brand. But its Insights, Research, and Build solutions integrate into Miro’s platform. Brian Balfour joins as Chief Growth Officer and Tom Willerer as Chief Strategy Officer.   When I first read that Miro acquired Reforge, I presumed Miro wanted to get into edtech. After all, M

This afternoon, Coursera reports its first quarterly earnings since the Udemy deal closed. Yesterday, it announced a $100 million investment in LearnVector, a new AI learning company founded by Andrew Ng. LearnVector’s domain was registered exactly one month ago and somehow it’s worth $300M? It’s a single page website with five open roles in Mountain View, and a promise of a first product in early 2027. Its founder is the co-founder of Coursera and the chairman of its board. If my reading of t