Udemy is one of the most significant online platforms that include MOOC (massive open online courses). It was founded in 2010 and the founders of Udemy are Eren Bali, Gagan Biyani, and Oktay Caglar. The headquarters of this company are situated in San Francisco, United States of America. The other headquarters of Udemy are located in California, with offices in Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Ankara, Turkey; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Gurugram, India. There are more than 1000 people; who are employed by the company. Let’s dive deeper into why is Udemy called Udemy.
They market themselves as a course marketplace. Udemy provides an online platform to one and all so that the instructors can create and also market their courses. Later, these online courses are rated by the students on a scale of 5 stars. Udemy is pronounced as Yoo-duh-me that often pronounced as “you dummy” too.
This giant has courses in more than 60 plus languages. Undoubtedly, there are other online platforms like Udemy but the openness of Udemy separates it from other learning systems like Khan Academy and Udacity. By 2017, Udemy has around 55,000 courses on its platform.
Why Is Udemy Called Udemy?
The name Udemy is nothing but a merger of You + Academy, this is the basic extension of the particular idea. The creators just tried their best in involving the public in the name as well. So, it was named as UDemy. U stands for You and Demy is the abbreviation of Academy.
In 2007, Udemy founder Eren Bali and Oktay Caglar had built software to create a live virtual classroom that can help people to study from anywhere. He created this platform while living in Turkey. They saw the potential of this product; which is then made it absolutely free for everyone. They shifted to Silicon Valley with their idea and later found a company. The site was soon launched by Eren Bali; Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani; in early 2010.
In February 2010; the founders of Udemy tried their best to raise venture capital funding, but their unique; life-changing idea failed to impress the investors; and they were continuously rejected at least 30 times; according to Gagan Biyani.
In response to this, they decided to launch their app on their own. It was named Udemy – “The Academy of You”; in May 2010.
There are different topics that have created space for themselves on the open online platform.
- Python – 27,538,900 students
- SQL – 4,033,751 students
- PMP – 1,351,586 students
- AWS Certification – 4,229,422 students
- Ethical Hacking – 8,584,761 students
- Cyber Security – 3,082,734 students
- Photoshop – 9,327,671 students
- Graphic Design – 2,714,156 students
- Drawing – 2,125,063 students
About Udemy
Eren Bali is from the small Turkish town of Durulora. He always faced limited education and he himself learned mathematics and other subjects, so he saw a possibility of online teaching that put the foundation of Udemy. Now, there are around 40 million active users of Udemy all over the world.
Udemy did recent rebrand from UDemy to Udemy. Udemy uses MySQL and they have already discussed the backend. That is the only reason why JavaScript is the most used language in Udemy. Django gets often used as the framework for Python development; just like AngularJS for backend JavaScript development.
About the founders
Eren Bali – He was born in 1984 and is the CEO and co-founder of Carbon health. He listened to his education at the MEETU faculty of engineering.
Gagan Biyani – He is the president and the co-founder of Udemy and he is from Texas, the United States of America. Gagan Biyani is also an internet entrepreneur; and he is the person who revealed that the idea of Udemy has been rejected 30 times.
Oktay Caglar – He is the CPO and also Co-Founder of Udemy. Caglar has been graduated from Middle East Technical University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Conclusion
Udemy is enhancing and enriching the young’s mind and that’s the reason why is Udemy called Udemy. If you like our series on how brands got their names, let us know in the comment section below.