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Coursera’s Jeff Maggioncalda: ‘Now we can go after the best people’

The online learning platform’s CEO on grasping the opportunities of a post-pandemic landscape

Jeff Maggioncalda has embraced a new title — the “nomadic CEO”. It wasn’t always this way. Before pandemic lockdowns closed the California headquarters of Coursera, the online learning platform he has led since 2017, he spent plenty of time at the office.

But the onslaught of coronavirus and the need to work from home persuaded him to develop a permanent “work from anywhere” policy and adjust his leadership style.

The company, which was founded in 2012 by two Stanford professors and offers a vast range of courses from short programmes to masters degrees and MBAs, closed its Mountain View offices in March 2020 as a result of lockdown and a few months later, in September, employees were given the option to work where they wished, forever.

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