Mattan Griffel

Mattan Griffel
Born Ramat HaSharon
Alma mater New York University
Occupation Entrepreneur
Known for Founder and CEO of One Month

Mattan Griffel is an entrepreneur, educator and CEO and co-founder of One Month.[1][2] Griffel is also a partner at GrowHack and teaches at General Assembly, an educational institution for entrepreneurs.[3]

Early life and career

Griffel was born in Ramat HaSharon, Israel where he lived for two years before emigrating to America with his parents,[4] first to Pasadena, California and then to New Jersey.[5] Griffel graduated from New York University summa cum laude with degrees in Finance and Philosophy, and worked as a marketing coordinator before starting One Month.[4]

Griffel co-founded One Month, an online education platform, through Y Combinator in 2013 after finding it difficult to locate a programmer to code apps for startups.[6][7] The first class offered was a month long and taught coding with Ruby on Rails.[8] The company raised $1.9 million in second seed round funding in 2015.[9][10]

In 2015, Griffel was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for education.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Ruth, Joao-Pierre (1 December 2015). "One Month Tries Boot Camp Approach to Teach Founders How to Launch". Xconomy. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Crichton, Danny (27 January 2015). "Searching For the Next Wave of Education Innovation". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "2015 30 Under 30: Education". Forbes. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  4. 1 2 Pendley, Sarah (2 December 2015). "Mattan Griffel Empowers the World to Code". Jewish Business News. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Zax, Talya (31 January 2016). "Learning to Build a Business in 'One Month'". Forward. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  6. ↑ Crook, Jordan (30 June 2015). "One Month, The Platform That Teaches You To Code (and More) In 30 Days, Picks up $1.9M in Funding". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Lazzaro, Sage (24 September 2015). "How to Get over Your Fear of Coding". Observer. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Lohr, Steve (17 August 2015). "Accomable: Lessons From an Inspiring Start-Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Wan, Tony (30 June 2015). "One Month Raises $1.9M in Second SEed Round to Deliver Bite-Sized Online Courses". EdSurge. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  10. ↑ Francisco Roizen, Bambi (1 July 2015). "Brief Interview With One Month's Mattan Griffel". Vator News. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  11. ↑ Howard, Caroline (5 January 2015). "Code and College Readiness are Reinventing Education On 30 Under 30". Forbes. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  12. ↑ French, Laura (24 February 2015). "The Younger the Better: Millennials Take Over Business". World Finance. Retrieved 3 March 2016.


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