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Evan Leong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
99 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

And, um, uh, at the time, uh, when we, when we started, when we decided to start, it was, he had 40,000 students on, on Udemy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

And now that's, I think a little north of a hundred, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

Uh, yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

Correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

So we are still doing that to just get the students.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

And, you know, it's kind of like free marketing in a sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

But there was two main reasons.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

The first is we wanted to really dial in on the learning experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

We couldn't go in and, you know, like custom change or custom code all the things that we wanted to curate this, to bring this content to people on other sites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

So we decided to build it ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

Secondly, we really like the idea of having it all in one program instead of opening up a web browser so we can really customize things, test things on our own platform rather than be at the helm of all these other websites.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

Secondly, if they went away, all of our revenue stream is just completely gone.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

We thought this was a good move.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

So right now, the only factor we're looking at is the stuff that we know these companies want to promote.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
785: He Makes $500k+ From Udemy Helping You Code

So courses that will... So what does Udemy like to promote?