How Platzi bootstrapped its way into Y Combinator to build the future of education

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by Sindy Cator on March 23, 2015 at 4:21 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Latin America, Profiles and Interviews

Latin American ed-tech startup Platzi will be on stage at Y Combinator’s Demo Day this Monday. As you may remember, Platzi is the new name of online education platform Mejorando.la — a rebranding aimed at reflecting its global ambitions. Its co-founders may also be familiar figures to TNW readers: both CEO Freddy Vega and COO Christian Van Der Henst have been co-leading several projects which we have covered over the last few years, from their weekly tech podcast to their conferences and online classes. All of these have now been brought under the umbrella of Platzi. While Vega and Van…