Freddy Vega (Platzi)

Sep 17, 2015, 11:00 PM – Sep 18, 2015, 2:00 AM

Freddy Vega is CEO and co-founder of Platzi, a fast-growing e-learning platform with an impressive 70% completion rate by students who take the company's courses. After graduating from the Winter 2015 class of YCombinator and continuing it's growth track, the company is setting it's sights on a global marketplace.

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About this event

Freddy Vega is CEO and co-founder of Platzi, a fast-growing e-learning platform with an impressive 70% completion rate by students who take the company's courses.  At the age of 16, he created a community called Cristalab, which, six years later, became the largest community of developers in Latin America. At this point, he merged his community with that of his co-founder, Christian Van Der Henst, and created Mejorando.la, a community with an educational offering.  With this growing community a new technology platform for streaming live classes with tools for engaging the audience, Freddy co-founded Platzi in 2013.  After graduating from the Winter 2015 class of YCombinator and continuing it's growth track, the company is setting it's sights on a global marketplace. 

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Speaker

  • Freddy Vega

    Platzi

    CEO

When

When

September 17 – 18, 2015
11:00 PM – 2:00 AM UTC

Agenda

11:00 PMNetworking and Food
12:00 AMFireside Chat
1:00 AMNetworking

Organizer

  • Giovanni Juliao

    Startup Grind

    Chapter Director

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