Seven years after replacing a Yale president with a fintech CEO, Coursera picks an Amazon veteran to help fix its slowing growth and falling stock price.

“Andrew is literally the only person that both Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have worked for. He is going to come up with things that nobody else can come up with.” “We don’t know exactly what those inventions and innovations will look like yet, but I’m highly confident that he is uniquely positioned to come up with things that we wouldn’t have come up with on our own.” That’s Greg Hart, Coursera’s CEO, on the July 29 earnings call, the first one since the Udemy merger, explaining why Coursera p

As growth falters, Coursera slashes revenue forecasts, ousts its Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Operating Officer, and suffers a record-low stock price.

When Class Central covered the Coursera-Udemy merger completion, Hugo Sarrazin’s role was unclear. Not anymore. He’s joining Avalara, a tax and compliance company, as CEO. Here’s the thing. Neither an SEC filing nor a public post announced the departure of the 14-month CEO, which led Udemy to its first profitable year and the $2.5 billion all-stock merger. The Quiet Exit The Coursera-Udemy merger was completed on May 11, 2026. Coursera even released a completion 8-K once it was done. Sarrazin,