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Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller launched Coursera in 2012. They had begun offering their own Stanford courses online during the fall of 2011 before leaving academia to build a global platform.
Greg Hart took over leadership functions on the 3rd of February 2025 after serving 23 years as Technical Advisor to Jeff Bezos at Amazon. He previously led development of Amazon Alexa and Echo before becoming Chief Product Officer at Compass real estate brokerage.
Coursera priced its initial public offering at thirty-three dollars per share on the 31st of March 2021 in New York. The IPO valued the nine-year-old company at approximately 4.3 billion dollars while aiming to raise about 519 million dollars.
Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania were the first universities to offer content on the new site. More than 300 universities and companies offered courses through the platform across twenty-nine countries as of recent counts.
Coursera announced earning one million dollars through verified certificate sales by September 2013. The platform introduced fee-based course options including verified credentials for completion that year.