Zach Sims
Zach Sims | |
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| File:Zach Sims, Co-Founder, Codecademy & Bobbie Johnson, European Correspondent, GigaOM @ LeWeb London 2012 Central Hall Westminster-0672 (cropped).jpg Sims in 2012 | |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Co-founder of Codecademy |
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Zach Sims (born 1990) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Codecademy, an online platform offering interactive coding lessons and tutorials.[1][2]
Sims served as the CEO of Codecademy, overseeing the platform's growth and development into one of the leading online resources for learning to code.
Biography
[edit | edit source]When Sims was 13, he started to email manufacturers with the idea to build a waterproof iPod case, showing his ambition for tech at a young age.[3]
Sims later entered Columbia University with the class of 2012,[4] as a political science major.[5][6]
During his junior year, he realized that most of the students did not have the skill set relevant to their job search.[7] He also worked for GroupMe, founded by his college friend Jared Hecht, after seeing him demo the application at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010.[3] However, he was frustrated with the lack of effective programming courses.[8] As a result, he decided to teach himself coding with the help of his friend Ryan Bubinski, whom he met while working for the Columbia Daily Spectator.[4] The two built the first version of Codecademy to teach Sims how to program.[7]
In 2011, Sims and Bubinski were accepted into Y Combinator's summer program. That summer, Sims launched Codecademy with Bubinski and dropped out of college, a year before graduation.[8][9] In 2011, the startup was the runner-up of TechCrunch's Best New Startup awards, losing to Pinterest.[10][11] During the first weekend of the launch, it attracted more than 200,000 users and had 1 million users by the end of 2011.[12] As of 2021, Codecademy has a user base of 45 million users.[8]
In 2013, Sims was named one of the finalists of the Time 100.[13][14] In 2015, Sims attended the World Economic Forum.[7]
Zach has been named to Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30 list[12]
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