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Coursera: Learner Story: Founding a Technology Startup
Roy Raanani drew on concepts, skills, and connections from Stanford University’s Machine Learning course on Coursera to found his startup, Chorus.ai. Here’s his story: After our first child was born, my wife took a job opportunity in Switzerland, and I quit my job as a business consultant to move to a remote Swiss village with her and our newborn. The move and my new role as a stay-at-home dad gave me the opportunity to pursue two topics that had always fascinated me - machine learning, and spoken language. Although I’d been an engineering student in college, I’d never worked as an engineer. But Coursera made it easy to sign up for Andrew Ng’s classic Machine Learning course, offered by Stanford University. I watched lectures and worked on assignments from our couch while the baby slept, and I became very active in the course forums - posting questions and ideas, meeting people from around the world. I ended up recruiting two friends to take the course…