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Udemy is one of the world's largest online-learning platforms by course-volume, founded in 2010 by Eren Bali (Turkish-American entrepreneur), Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani, focused on providing an open-marketplace model where individual instructors can publish their own courses for sale. The platform was IPO-listed on NASDAQ in October 2021 (NASDAQ: UDMY). As of 2024 Udemy reports ~210,000+ courses (substantially the largest course-catalog among major MOOC platforms reflecting the open-marketplace model), ~75+ million learners, plus ~70,000+ instructors.\n\nThe platform offers substantial individual-course purchase (with frequently-discounted pricing — typical course list-price USD 100-200 but discounted prices USD 10-20 are common) plus the substantial Udemy Pro subscription (~USD 30/month) plus Udemy Business B2B subscription (substantial enterprise-client pricing). The substantial post-2020 Udemy growth driven by COVID-19-pandemic online-learning surge plus the substantial post-2020 Udemy Business B2B expansion (with substantial Fortune 500 enterprise-client adoption). The substantial Udemy course-catalog covers programming, data science, business, design, marketing, photography, music, language-learning, personal-development, plus broader 20+ category clusters.\n\nThe open-marketplace model produces substantial course-quality variation (with some Udemy courses being substantively-rigorous and others being substantially-superficial) — reviewer-rating systems and bestselling-course-tagging substantially help learner-quality-discovery. For a globally-mobile professional, Udemy provides substantial accessible-low-priced online-learning particularly for skill-specific topics where peer-MOOC platforms lack substantial coverage. The substantial Indian-learner engagement is substantial given the substantial discounted-pricing accessibility plus the substantial Indian instructor-community on the platform.