{"id":8268,"date":"2012-10-01T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2012-10-01T19:24:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:24:28","slug":"8268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/10\/01\/8268\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of t…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zach Sims is the co-founder and CEO of the Codecademy website. \u00a0As a 22 year old CEO, much of Zach’s biography involves some of the short term projects he’s worked on to date such as Drop.io (acquired by Facebook), AOL’s venture group, and GroupMe (acquired by Skype).<\/p>\n

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\nCodecademy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Codecademy is a website designed to help students learn how to program through a fun, progress tracking and badge obtaining system. \u00a0In this 6 minute interview, Zach and co-founder Ryan Bubinski describe their ascension to Codecademy :<\/p>\n

Ryan Bubinski and Zach Sims, Co-founders of Codecademy<\/a> from Venture Studio<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As young entrepreneurs, Zach and Ryan amassed over 200,000 followers within 3 days of launching without any advertising which then lead to a few investors offering to fund the venture. \u00a0In October 2011, they raised $2.5 million in Series A funding and have since added another $10 million in Series B funding this past June. \u00a0By the end of 2011, the site had garnered over a million users. \u00a0Although no clear indication on how they are aiming to gain revenue from the venture, there are a multitude of options that will become available in coming years as the user base continues to expand. \u00a0Among the options:<\/p>\n