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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.


Openclassrooms co-founders Pierre Dubuc and Mathieu Nebra

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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