Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

[LevelUP]

Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training

https://www.reuters.com/business/courser...025-12-17/

[JayKosmos]

Having recently completed a bunch of credits through Coursera, I wish they would have invested that into... Coursera.

So many glitches and lots of outdated material, especially in the computer related courses.

But maybe somehow the merger will improve the site. I'm too tired tonight to read the article (and honestly still too freshly stressed out from Coursera to care at the moment lol) but mergers/acquisitions are rarely about improving the product and more often about eliminating the competition so that you do not have to...improve the product.

[bluebooger]

love udemy
so may good courses : power bi, multivariable calculus, pygame, sdl, python for scientific programming ...

coursera is a drag

[Tomas]

It is an all-stock deal, so if any money they could have invested into Coursera product, it is still sitting in the account.
Udemy and Coursera are not much of a competition, they are (or were, in the times where there were only university courses) quite complementary products.
Udemy has some great courses, but loads of junk too...(not even speaking about outdated material - favorite trick of most authors is to update course description every month, to show the last updated date, even if actual content is outdated and many years old)

[bjcheung77]

Weird, the first time I read about this a few days ago or a couple of weeks ago was $800 million or somewhere around that number. What happened to that price point, it's not worth it at $2.5 billion. At 800 million, I was already going to say, it's too much for Udemy, way too much...

[Jonathan Whatley]

Weird, the first time I read about this a few days ago or a couple of weeks ago was $800 million or somewhere around that number.  What happened to that price point, it's not worth it at $2.5 billion.  At 800 million, I was already going to say, it's too much for Udemy, way too much...

Coursera is buying Udemy at a price valuing Udemy at around $930 million. The combined company would then be valued around $2.5 billion.