> The players in the industry that went after enterprises are doing well, the players that stuck to selling mostly to individual customers are having a rough go of it.
Keep in mind they had a deal with Georgia Tech's OMSCS, but something went awry there too.
The ink wasn’t even dry on the OMSCS deal when Udacity did their “pivot” to Nanodegrees. They lived up to the letter of the agreement with GT—in fact Udacity is still the classroom platform for OMSCS classes—but they went in a completely different direction as a company with a product that effectively competes with OMSCS.
It’s not hard to see why: GT said recently that through 5 years of operation the OMSCS has made $14M for the school. That’s wonderful from their perspective, but that’s a total disaster for a VC-funded unicorn company.
Keep in mind they had a deal with Georgia Tech's OMSCS, but something went awry there too.