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Pluralsight

Pluralsight
Private
Industry Online education
Founded 2004 (2004)
Founder
  • Aaron Skonnard
  • Keith Brown
  • Fritz Onion
  • Bill Williams
Headquarters Farmington, Utah, U.S.
Number of locations
7 offices
Area served
Globally
Key people
Aaron Skonnard (CEO)
Products Online Technical training
Website www.pluralsight.com

Pluralsight is a privately held online education company that offers a variety of video training courses for software developers, IT administrators, and creative professionals through its website. Founded in 2004 by Aaron Skonnard (current CEO), Keith Brown, Fritz Onion, and Bill Williams (no longer with the company), the company has its headquarters in Farmington, Utah. In September 2014, it stated it uses more than 600 subject-matter experts as course authors, offers close to 4,000 courses in its catalog, has more than 750,000 individual subscribers and more than 6,000 corporate clients.

Pluralsight was founded in 2004 as a classroom training company that involved sending an instructor to a business or training event. By 2007, the company shifted its emphasis to online video training.

Since 2011, the company has seen rapid growth. It has been named to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing private companies, ranking as the #9 Top Education company and the #19 Top Utah company.

Through a subscription business model, Pluralsight provides online professional tech training to individual and business customers. The company pays its course authors a royalty, based on how often their videos are viewed. In 2013, author Scott Allen became the first of its authors to earn over US$1 million in royalties from his courses.

When Pluralsight first started, all four of its founders contributed US$5,000 each. For the first nine years, the company and its founders received no outside funding. As of March 2015, the company has received US$169 million in venture funding.

In December 2012, the company raised US$27.5 million in Series A funding from Insight Venture Partners. On March 18, 2014 it received an additional US$2.5 million in Series A Funding. On August 27, 2014, it received US$135 million in Series B funding from Insight Venture Partners, Iconiq Capital, and Sorenson Capital—reported at the time to be the largest venture funding round ever received by a Utah company. Co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard stated that after this round of funding, the company's valuation had increased from less than US$100 million in 2012 to nearly US$1 billion.


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