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Time of India
16-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Upskilling, reskilling to help Indian workforce win in tomorrow's market: Coursera CEO Greg Hart
Academy Empower your mind, elevate your skills India could house the largest user base for Coursera by 2026, the $1.3 billion online learning platform's president and chief executive Greg Hart told ET on 30 million registered learners and a 20% annual growth rate, India currently accounts for the second largest number of users on Coursera, after the US. In terms of the user base for generative artificial intelligence, India is already the largest, said Hart, who is on his first visit to India after being appointed the company's CEO in February this Hart said, if India has to keep its edge as the world's talent hub and seize the economic benefits of the unfolding AI revolution, it must scale up its skilling efforts, considering a major gap persists in the country's readiness on Gen AI."Different stats show the Indian workforce isn't necessarily delivering all the skills that employers need here. This points to the need for upskilling and reskilling and giving people the right tools to be able to be successful in not just today's economy, but tomorrow's economy, as well as Gen AI," Hart said during an which has a valuation of about $1.3 billion was founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Early investors included Kleiner Perkins, NEA (New Enterprise Associates), GSV Ventures and the Seek global AI Maturity Index places India at 46th, lagging behind most of Europe, New Zealand, Israel, Japan and Malaysia. The index lends data from Coursera alongside those from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, World Bank and World Economic Forum. Hart added that however to India's advantage, it already has a large population of IT and engineering skills. "That, to me, is a fantastic platform to then just add AI as the next skill," he is $ 4.1 trillion economy right now and its GDP number makes it the fourth largest in the world. There are forecasts that India can add $1.5 trillion to the economy and so more than a third to that $4.1 trillion will come through Gen AI by 2030, he said. "That's not far away to come true. So obviously, people need to be upskilled and need to learn AI and so on," he counts Reliance Industries Axis Bank , Larsen & Toubro, Flipkart and Infosys as major clients in India currently, Hart said. Making up 30% of Coursera's business, the enterprise segment, however, has seen customers facing challenges due to the ongoing global macro-economic uncertainty."The uncertainty creates challenges for them (corporates) in figuring out what to do."Global enrolment rates into Gen AI courses have risen faster for women, as compared to men, despite major gender disparity, Hart pointed out. For all courses, Coursera's enrolment numbers are broadly equally divided between the sexes, he said."Historically, there has been a gender disparity in STEM professions and technology, and that can sometimes be a self-perpetuating thing. Online learning is a fantastic leveller of that playing field," Hart 20% of Coursera's R&D base is in India, with a large centre that handles all the work for its enterprise and degrees businesses. Courses in engineering, cybersecurity, big data and analytics continue to be favourites among Indian users, alongside business and finance, Coursera data shows."There is a huge interest, both from enterprise and from individual learners, in learning more about Gen AI. That's by far the largest single trend that continues to accelerate," he National Credit Framework under the 2020 National Education Policy is driving user enrolments on the platform. Coursera has also rolled out skill development programmes in partnership with Odisha and Kerala, the latter of which plans to train up to 60,000 residents this year through 40 virtual academies under the Kerala Knowledge Economy Mission.
CNBC
11-07-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Asia Pacific leads generative AI enrollments globally: Coursera CEO
Greg Hart, CEO and President of open online course provider Coursera, discusses generative AI demand in Asia Pacific, content neutrality, and Coursera Coach, its AI-powered tool to keep learners engaged.
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This CEO went from folding clothes at Nordstrom to being Jeff Bezos' right hand man—the billionaire told him to delegate to his employees more
Amazon's billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, instilled one lesson in his former worker. It was 1997 when Coursera's newest CEO, Greg Hart was a young new hire at Amazon. He climbed the ranks swiftly, becoming Bezos' right-hand man just 12 years later. Today, Hart still points to one lesson that's shaped his leadership philosophy: 'The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization will move,' Hart tells Fortune. During Greg Hart's monotonous college job of folding t-shirts and jeans at Nordstrom, he never imagined that one day he'd be right-hand man to one of the most notable CEOs in the world—or even be an executive himself. But after landing a job at Amazon in the late 1990s—when it was a bookstore-focused startup—Hart started his steep climb up the corporate ladder. In 2009, he had worked his way up to Jeff Bezos' technical advisor, a chief-of-staff-equivalent role internally known as 'the shadow.' Now, as a new CEO of Coursera, Hart is taking the lessons he learned sitting next to the now third-richest man in the world (with a net worth of $241 billion) to transform the world of educational technology. That includes, he says, being someone who is always willing to be curious and to listen to your gut—even if the data might not back you up. 'One of the things that Jeff would regularly say is when the data and the anecdotes don't align, trust the anecdotes,' Hart tells Fortune. 'Because it probably means that you're either measuring the wrong thing in the data, or that the data is telling you something that you're just not seeing yet.' This mantra would prove especially relevant in Hart's life after he was tapped to lead Amazon's creation of Alexa—a level of success he hopes to emulate at Coursera. '(Coursera) is one of the leaders in the edtech space, certainly,' Hart says. 'But hasn't yet achieved what I would call the true breakout success that I was fortunate to have seen when I was at Amazon.' While serving as technical advisor, Hart was asked to turn Bezos' two-sentence idea for the implementation of virtual assistant technology into a product found in consumers' homes, later known as Alexa. With little background in hardware or software, Hart recalls being hesitant: 'Why am I the right person to tackle this challenge?' 'He (Bezos) was unbelievably gracious. He said, 'you'll do fine, you'll figure it out,'' Hart says. Now with more than 600 million Alexa devices sold, it's clear Hart did figure it out—in part thanks to the belief Bezos instilled in his subordinates. That lesson is one Hart says was critical in making Amazon grow from a bookstore to an e-commerce conglomerate. 'Pushing decisions down as close to the customer as possible was certainly something that I learned from Jeff,' he says. 'The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization will move.' Moving quickly will likely play in Coursera's favor considering the rapidly changing world of education, including AI's intersection with skill development. One of Coursera's biggest competitors, 2U (which also owns edX), filed for bankruptcy last year and became a private company. Coursera's public performance hasn't been spectacular, either. Its share price currently sits at about $8.50, a far cry from its 2022 IPO at about $45. But in the next five years, a predicted 1 billion people will gain internet access, according to Bloomberg, and thus would have access to Coursera's thousands of online learning opportunities, that include partnerships with both industry and universities including Google, Microsoft, and IBM as well as Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania. 'There is a huge opportunity for Coursera, not just to serve all the people who are online today and give them access to world class education so they can transform their lives, but also to do that for the population that will come online,' Hart says. For young people looking to push their careers up the corporate ladder and emulate a jump from Nordstrom to Amazon,Hart's advice is simple: Focus on learning—not on a flashy job title or cushy salary. 'Don't optimize for titles, don't optimize for salary, optimize for learning. And if you do that in the long run, it will benefit you,' he tells Fortune. And while that advice may sound on-brand coming from the CEO of an education company, treating your career like a marathon, not a sprint, and spending time discovering your broader interests is a mantra echoed by other business leaders, including Hart's former coworker, Andy Jassy. 'I have a 21-year-old son and a 24-year-old daughter, and one of the things I see with them and their peers is they all feel like they have to know what they want to do for their life at that age,' Jassy, the current Amazon CEO, said on the podcast, How Leaders Lead with David Novak. 'And I really don't believe that's true.' 'I tried a lot of things, and I think that early on it's just as important to learn what you don't want to do as what you want to do, because it actually helps you figure out what you want to do,' Jassy added. And while Jassy admits career success involves an element of luck and may include multiple setbacks, remaining persistent is what ultimately might land you a shot at the corner office. 'I feel like my journey or adventure was a lot of luck, and I think maybe one of the things I did best was not overthink it,' Jassy added to Novak. This story was originally featured on Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
This CEO went from folding clothes at Nordstrom to being Jeff Bezos' right hand man—the billionaire told him to delegate to his employees more
Amazon's billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, instilled one lesson in his former worker. It was 1997 when Coursera's newest CEO, Greg Hart was a young new hire at Amazon. He climbed the ranks swiftly, becoming Bezos' right-hand man just 12 years later. Today, Hart still points to one lesson that's shaped his leadership philosophy: 'The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization will move,' Hart tells Fortune. During Greg Hart's monotonous college job of folding t-shirts and jeans at Nordstrom, he never imagined that one day he'd be right-hand man to one of the most notable CEOs in the world—or even be an executive himself. But after landing a job at Amazon in the late 1990s—when it was a bookstore-focused startup—Hart started his steep climb up the corporate ladder. In 2009, he had worked his way up to Jeff Bezos' technical advisor, a chief-of-staff-equivalent role internally known as 'the shadow.' Now, as a new CEO of Coursera, Hart is taking the lessons he learned sitting next to the now third-richest man in the world (with a net worth of $241 billion) to transform the world of educational technology. That includes, he says, being someone who is always willing to be curious and to listen to your gut—even if the data might not back you up. 'One of the things that Jeff would regularly say is when the data and the anecdotes don't align, trust the anecdotes,' Hart tells Fortune. 'Because it probably means that you're either measuring the wrong thing in the data, or that the data is telling you something that you're just not seeing yet.' This mantra would prove especially relevant in Hart's life after he was tapped to lead Amazon's creation of Alexa—a level of success he hopes to emulate at Coursera. '(Coursera) is one of the leaders in the edtech space, certainly,' Hart says. 'But hasn't yet achieved what I would call the true breakout success that I was fortunate to have seen when I was at Amazon.' While serving as technical advisor, Hart was asked to turn Bezos' two-sentence idea for the implementation of virtual assistant technology into a product found in consumers' homes, later known as Alexa. With little background in hardware or software, Hart recalls being hesitant: 'Why am I the right person to tackle this challenge?' 'He (Bezos) was unbelievably gracious. He said, 'you'll do fine, you'll figure it out,'' Hart says. Now with more than 600 million Alexa devices sold, it's clear Hart did figure it out—in part thanks to the belief Bezos instilled in his subordinates. That lesson is one Hart says was critical in making Amazon grow from a bookstore to an e-commerce conglomerate. 'Pushing decisions down as close to the customer as possible was certainly something that I learned from Jeff,' he says. 'The fewer decisions that have to go to the CEO, the faster the organization will move.' Moving quickly will likely play in Coursera's favor considering the rapidly changing world of education, including AI's intersection with skill development. One of Coursera's biggest competitors, 2U (which also owns edX), filed for bankruptcy last year and became a private company. Coursera's public performance hasn't been spectacular, either. Its share price currently sits at about $8.50, a far cry from its 2022 IPO at about $45. But in the next five years, a predicted 1 billion people will gain internet access, according to Bloomberg, and thus would have access to Coursera's thousands of online learning opportunities, that include partnerships with both industry and universities including Google, Microsoft, and IBM as well as Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of Pennsylvania. 'There is a huge opportunity for Coursera, not just to serve all the people who are online today and give them access to world class education so they can transform their lives, but also to do that for the population that will come online,' Hart says. For young people looking to push their careers up the corporate ladder and emulate a jump from Nordstrom to Amazon,Hart's advice is simple: Focus on learning—not on a flashy job title or cushy salary. 'Don't optimize for titles, don't optimize for salary, optimize for learning. And if you do that in the long run, it will benefit you,' he tells Fortune. And while that advice may sound on-brand coming from the CEO of an education company, treating your career like a marathon, not a sprint, and spending time discovering your broader interests is a mantra echoed by other business leaders, including Hart's former coworker, Andy Jassy. 'I have a 21-year-old son and a 24-year-old daughter, and one of the things I see with them and their peers is they all feel like they have to know what they want to do for their life at that age,' Jassy, the current Amazon CEO, said on the podcast, How Leaders Lead with David Novak. 'And I really don't believe that's true.' 'I tried a lot of things, and I think that early on it's just as important to learn what you don't want to do as what you want to do, because it actually helps you figure out what you want to do,' Jassy added. And while Jassy admits career success involves an element of luck and may include multiple setbacks, remaining persistent is what ultimately might land you a shot at the corner office. 'I feel like my journey or adventure was a lot of luck, and I think maybe one of the things I did best was not overthink it,' Jassy added to Novak. 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Yahoo
26-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Coursera
Coursera CEO Greg Hart Credit - Courtesy Coursera In the race to master generative AI, Coursera has emerged as the go-to platform for white-collar upskilling. With 20 million new learners in 2024 and content now available in 24 additional languages, the online education giant is aiming to democratize access to tech's most sought-after skills. Most telling: generative AI course enrollments surged from one per minute in 2023 to six per minute in 2024, totaling 3 million new skills-first hiring, which prioritizes someone's competence over things like having a particular degree, gains momentum—over half of U.S. job listings now omit formal education requirements, according to a 2024 report by the research arm of job platform Indeed—Coursera's 25 new entry-level Professional Certificates are meeting the demand for alternative credentials. Under the leadership of CEO Greg Hart, who took over in February, the company is continuing to expand its partnerships with industry leaders like Google, Microsoft, and Oxford's Said Business School, positioning Coursera at the intersection of AI innovation and workforce transformation. Contact us at letters@
