Udacity snags $15M to continue its assault on higher education

Udacity CEO and co-founder Sebastian Thrun

Few industries are under greater assault by technology than higher education — and few companies are doing more to upend the way people learn the world over than Udacity, the young Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup that’s brought computer science classes online and watched hundreds of thousands of students enroll. For single classes.
The startup is led by Sebastian Thrun, a former Google VP and fellow who led the development of Google’s self-driving car and Google Glasses. And those are just some of his accomplishments. It was while he was a…

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