In August of 2010, I was one of the first employees at a small startup called GroupMe. The story seems familiar—a duo of young entrepreneurs started the company and modeled it on a problem they had.

Publicly traded digital learning provider Skillsoft Corp. is acquiring Codecademy, the operator of a popular education platform that helps users learn how to program. The companies announced the ...

Codecademy has spent the last several years building a large community of learners with free lessons aimed at teaching its users the basics of how to code. But now it's betting that many of them will ...

Recorded on July 6, 2015. Today on Cribs we’re touring the New York City headquarters of Codecademy, the startup that makes an interactive platform to teach people how to program. Codecademy is based ...