One Month

One Month, Inc.
Industry Online Education
Founder Mattan Griffel
Chris Castiglione
Number of employees
 8 (December, 2014)
Website onemonth.com

One Month is an online accelerated learning platform largely featuring technology-based courses. The company currently provides online tutorials for Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Growth Hacking, iOS, Stripe (company), Web Security and Programming for Non-Programmers.[1] The courses are designed to teach a programming language in 30 days.[2] One Month has had over 150,000 lessons completed[3] with more than 25,000 users,[4] including representatives from Google, Stanford University, Duke University, Yale University, Harvard University, American Express, and JPMorgan Chase.[5]

History

One Month co-founders Castiglione and Griffel

One Month was founded in May 2013[2] by Chris Castiglione and Mattan Griffel. Chris Castiglione was previously a teacher of "Programming For Non-Programmers" at General Assembly and Columbia University and digital app developer for The Black Eyed Peas, Toyota, and American Express.[6] Mattan Griffel created the Skillshare course "Teach Yourself to Code: One Month Rails." [7] The pair met while teaching at General Assembly in New York City. The company, based in New York City, was originally known as One Month Rails, and taught basic Ruby on Rails coding. It expanded to include other classes and became One Month.[8][9] Griffel became CEO of One Month[10] and was featured on the Forbes 30 under 30 list.[11]

The two left their teaching positions when they were accepted to Y-Combinator.

By May 2013, the company had raised $770k in venture funding from Y Combinator,[12] Maverick Capital, Lew Moorman, Innovation Works, General Catalyst Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Winklevoss Capital Management, FundersClub, and Wefunder.[3][9][13][14]

In December 2014, One Month acquired GoRails, a learning resource for Ruby on Rails.[8][15] Chris Oliver, founder of GoRails and LaunchCode,[15][16] joined the One Month team in New York to continue development of GoRails as an independent extension to the One Month program as lead engineer.[8][15] The company launched a program in January 2015, which awards scholarships to women in the technology field to help bring more women into the industry.[10][17] In June 2015, the company raised $1.9 million in a funding round led by Idea Bulb Ventures and Arena Ventures. Cornerstone OnDemand also participated as a strategic investor.[4][18]

References

  1. ↑ Leong, Theon. "Can you change your life in just one month? This startup says you can". www.e27.co. e27. Retrieved June 2, 2014.
  2. 1 2 Richard Ruth (March 5, 2015). "One Month: Innovation in Online Education". StartupHook. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Sam O’Keefe, Jordan Crook (June 25, 2014). "One Month Raises $770K to Teach All Of The Coding". Tech Crunch. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Jordan Crook (June 30, 2015). "One Month, The Platform That Teaches You To Code (And More) In 30 Days, Picks Up $1.9M In Funding". Tech Crunch. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ Aja Frost. "Work for the Company That’s (Literally) Schooling Google". The Muse. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  6. ↑ Castiglione, Chris. "Projects by Chris Castiglione". www.ccastig.com. Retrieved July 1, 2014.
  7. ↑ Heussner, Ki Mae. "With Skillshare’s online classes, instructors get shot at bigger bucks". www.gigaom.com. Gigaom Inc. Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  8. 1 2 3 Kia Kokalitcheva (December 19, 2014). "One Month acquires GoRails to expand its coding courses". Venture Beat. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  9. 1 2 Ronald Barba (June 26, 2014). "One Month Raises $770K for Accelerated Code Learning Platform". Tech.co. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  10. 1 2 Will Schmidt (March 21, 2015). "One Month: Our Students are Our Biggest Asset". Tech.com. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  11. ↑ "The younger the better: millennials take over business". World Finance. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  12. ↑ Crook, Jordan. "YC-Backed One Month Rails Teaches You How To Build Your Startup While You Learn To Code". www.techcrunch.com. AOL inc. Retrieved August 5, 2013.
  13. ↑ Regalado, Antonio. "Crowd Investing Is the New Way to Finance Technology Development". www.technologyreview.com. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  14. ↑ "One Month". www.crunchbase.com. AOL inc. Retrieved August 1, 2014.
  15. 1 2 3 Will Schmidt (December 19, 2014). "One Month Acquires GoRails to Bulk Up Ruby on Rails Course". Tech.co. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  16. ↑ Brian Feldt (December 22, 2014). "St. Louis developer’s GoRails platform acquired by New York startup". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  17. ↑ Will Schmidt (December 15, 2014). "One Month is Issuing Scholarships for Women in Tech". Tech.co. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  18. ↑ Tony Wan (June 30, 2015). "One Month Raises $1.9M in Second Seed Round to Deliver Bite-Sized Online Courses". edSurge. Retrieved July 9, 2015.

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