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

Coursera announced job cuts on July 6, eight weeks after its merger with Udemy closed. The company didn’t say how many people were affected. The only number it gave was a cost, $8 million to $11 million. After digging around California’s website, I found that 59 people were laid off: 31 from Coursera’s Mountain View headquarters, and 28 from Udemy’s office in San Francisco. California only requires these notices for jobs in the state, so that isn’t the whole number. Based on what the two compa

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From course ratings to pricing, let’s have a look at some of the discernible trends of Udemy’s catalog.