French entrepreneur Pierre Dubuc was 11 years old when he went online searching for a how-to guide on coding a website from scratch.
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December 2, 2020
How an 11-year-old helped reshape education with Openclassrooms
OpenClassrooms is now a global platform for online education. It got started by two teenagers just when the dot-com bubble was bursting.
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