111: Creating Online Courses from South America with Freddy Vega of Platzi (a Y Combinator Co.)

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Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

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🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Freddy Vega is the Cofounder and CEO of Platzi. With over 700,000 students around the world, Platzi is the biggest tech school in Latin America. Platzi is helping transform developing countries into digital economies, training the next generation of professionals in programming, marketing, design and everything related to tech. Graduates of this tech school increase their income up to 260%. Platzi was the 1st company with a Hispanic market to be a part of Y Combinator (Class of Winter 2015). Please Support Our Episode Sponsors: Fundrise is the first investment platform to create a simple, low-cost way for anyone to access real estate's historically consistent returns. For as little as $500, you can invest into real estate today! To get your first 3 months of fees waived visit: millionaire-interviews.com/fundrise. HostGator is offering our listeners 62% off their hosting packages! They offer the best value and that's why I've been a customer since 2012. So if you're looking for a hosting provider (w/ fast customer support available 24/7/365) for your website, then sign up by going to: millionaire-interviews.com/hostgator. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit here: Freddy Vega Interview. *** Support this Podcast via Patreon Feedback? Questions? Comments? We'd love to hear from you! Hollar at us via: Twitter (@acpeek or @millionairepod), Instagram (@millionaire_interviews), LinkedIn (@austincpeek), Facebook (@millionaireinterviews), or Email: [email protected]. 😎😍😀

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0:00.0	Now we are going to do something extremely fun.
0:03.2	We are going to play a wonderful game called
0:06.3	Who Is My Daddy and What Does He Do?
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0:19.1	My competitor is today, My co-founder, Christian Vanderhens.
0:23.7	We were bigger than any US website regarding flash or web design.
0:28.6	We ended up going to Miami because Christian wanted to open the company in Miami.
0:33.6	That was my first mistake.
0:34.6	We usually open a company in Miami in general.
0:37.6	I also remember that every time we got into this argument and I was really on the edge of winning.
0:45.6	You will always try to remind everybody that this company was bigger than mine.
0:53.6	My name is Freddie Vega.
0:55.6	I am the CEO and co-founder of Platy. I am 32 years old.
0:59.6	I am originally from Bogota in Colombia, where I am right now.
1:02.6	My company, Platy, is located in San Francisco, California.
1:06.6	We also have offices in Mexico City and in Bogota.
1:09.6	And we are opening these year offices in Brazil and in Spain.
1:13.6	At Platy, we do effective on education,
1:16.6	which means that we do the kind of online courses that will get people a better job, a better career,
1:21.6	or will enable them to create their own tech company after they study with us.
1:26.6	We focus mostly on developing markets, which means that most of our courses are in Spanish and Portuguese.
1:31.6	But we also have some courses in English.
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