Seven years after replacing a Yale president with a fintech CEO, Coursera picks an Amazon veteran to help fix its slowing growth and falling stock price.

This year, Duolingo announced a major strategic shift: from monetization to user growth, with a target of 100 million daily active users by the end of 2028. To get there, it needs to grow about 25% year over year, every quarter. In Q2 2026, daily users grew 23%, to 58.7 million, the first time growth has sped up in two years. Duolingo also disclosed a roughly $10 million bonus that pays out if Q4 growth hits 25% or more. Paid subscribers grew by about 200,000 in the quarter, the fewest since 2

What if I told you that one man’s frustration with an elevator breakdown led to the creation of the fastest-growing and most-beloved programming languages today? Seventeen years ago, Graydon Hoare’s ordinary evening turned pivotal when an out-of-order elevator at his apartment building forced him to trek up 21 stories. A Mozilla software engineer, Hoare’s frustration wasn’t just with the climb, but with the fact that the tools of his trade couldn’t even make an elevator that works without cras

TL;DR Q1 2026 revenue grew 9% YoY; Consumer segment is up double digits, but Enterprise segment is lagging. The platform fee pushed Consumer margins to a multi-year high, but Enterprise customer count slipped for the first time since IPO. Enterprise grew 7% YoY, ahead of management’s low single-digit guidance, with new GM Anthony Salcito leading execution improvements. In the last earnings report, we flagged Coursera’s struggling segments. Not much has changed, except for one thing: the plat