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  1. Y Combinator29 min

    Zach Sims at Startup School NY 2014

    Zach Sims, Alexis

    Codecademy co-founders Zach Sims and Ryan launched an interactive coding education platform in 2011 to bridge the gap between university degrees and marketable technical skills, eventually serving over 24 million students globally. Despite early investor skepticism regarding market size, the startup secured $2.5 million in Series A funding from Union Square Ventures after experiencing immediate traction that broke their analytics systems. Driven by the urgent need to address unemployment among graduates and a projected global shortage of over one million programmers, the company established its operations in New York to cultivate a sustainable ecosystem for coding literacy.