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CEFIS Built a R$21.90-a-Month Answer to Brazil’s Never-Ending Tax Rulebook
For accountants drowning in rule changes, CEFIS sells a cheap, living library instead of another expensive seminar. The bet works when breadth and speed matter - and shows its limits when learners need the messy practice of a real office.
Musora Bet the Farm on Free Drum Lessons. Now It Wants to Teach You Five Instruments.
A maxed-out credit card, a $9.99 domain and one counterintuitive bet built an online music school with more than 100,000 active students. Its next trick is making a five-instrument subscription feel personal enough to keep beginners practicing.
MasterClass Is Turning Celebrity Lessons Into a Career Stack
The company that taught millions to cook with Gordon Ramsay and write with Shonda Rhimes is widening its frame - from beautifully filmed inspiration to workplace training, AI rehearsal and credentials built for a changing job market.
Skillshare
Skillshare is an online learning community where creatives learn by doing. Through tens of thousands of project-based video classes taught by working professionals - in illustration, design, photography, film, marketing, music and more - the New York-based platform turns a flat monthly subscription into access to a library built and taught by practitioners rather than academics. Founded in 2010, it has grown into one of the largest creative learning marketplaces in the world.
Begin
Begin (legally Conscious Content Media, dba BEGiN) is a New York-based early-learning company that builds research-backed, play-based products for kids ages 2-10. Its portfolio - HOMER, codeSpark, Little Passports, and the Sesame Workshop partnership app Learn with Sesame - blends digital, physical, and experiential learning around a '6Cs' skills framework, and has reached more than 10 million families. Backed by LEGO Ventures, Sesame Workshop, and Gymboree, the company raised a $94.5M Series D in late 2022 before entering a prenegotiated Chapter 11 restructuring in December 2025 to cut roughly $106.5M in debt and continue operating its brands.