About Learnly
We think ten good minutes beat a perfect plan
Learnly exists to make learning feel doable again: short lessons, real projects and people who cheer you on. Here's who we are and what we believe.
Our mission
Help a billion people get a little better at something they care about
Most online courses are long, lonely and easy to abandon. We started Learnly because we kept buying courses we never finished, and we suspected we weren't the only ones.
So we built the opposite: lessons you can finish on a bus ride, projects that feel like real work, streaks that make you smile and instructors who actually reply. Completion rates on Learnly are three times the industry average, and we're just getting started.
Our story
From a kitchen table to 160 countries
- 2021
A kitchen-table idea
Nadia and Elias record ten lessons on product design and share them with friends.
- 2022
The first 10,000 learners
Streaks and weekly goals arrive. Completion rates triple overnight.
- 2024
The studio opens
Any expert can build, publish and grow a course with our instructor studio.
- 2026
1.2 million learners
Learners in 160 countries, a mobile app and Learnly for teams.
The team
Small team, big hearts
Fifty-four people across eleven time zones. A few of us:
- Nadia OkaforCo-founder & CEO
- Elias BrandtCo-founder & CTO
- Yuna ParkHead of Learning
- Marco BelliniDesign Lead
- Asha VermaInstructor Success
- Felix AndersenMobile Engineer
- Zainab MusaCommunity Lead
- Theo LaurentData & Insights
Values
What we care about
Small wins first
Progress you can feel today beats a perfect plan for next year.
Teach like a friend
Plain words, real examples and zero gatekeeping.
Make, don't just watch
Every course ends in something you built and can show.
Open doors
Free previews, fair prices and discounts for those who need them.
Careers
Come build Learnly with us
Remote-friendly, a learning Friday every month and a yearly learning budget of $1,500.
- Full-timeApply
Senior Product Designer, Learning
Design Remote (Europe)
- Full-timeApply
Staff Engineer, Video Platform
Engineering Remote (Americas)
- Full-timeApply
Learning Experience Designer
Learning Portwick or remote
- Part-timeApply
Community Manager, Spanish
Community Remote
- Full-timeApply
Instructor Partnerships Lead
Growth Portwick
Learn something small today
It's free to start, and the first lesson takes about ten minutes.