Economics
Branson Backs Codecademy With Kleiner for Online Teaching
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Zach Sims didn’t let the fact that he’s not a programmer stop him from creating Codecademy, a startup that offers free online computer science courses.
In the year since Sims debuted Codecademy at the Y Combinator incubator program, he has lured $12.5 million in funding from backers including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and billionaires Richard Branson and Yuri Milner.