FREDDY VEGA
Colombia, Platzi
Co-founder and CEO of Platzi. Leader and founder of Cristalab, the biggest web design
community in Spanish (Stack Overflow for Latam). Former computer teacher. Platzi was
selected to be part of YCombinator Winter 2015 and was named a Top 10 most promising
EdTech startup for 2014 in the Global EdTech startup awards.
If I could spend the rest of my life solving one problem, it would be making Professional
Education available to everybody regardless of socioeconomic background or where people
are born.
I am relentless in my pursuit of effective models to teach professional skills to everybody with the objective of pivoting
the economies of developing countries into knowledge and service economies.