“AI 大神”吳恩達收穫首個IPO，Coursera上市首日大漲36.36%

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"blockquote","content":[{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"吳恩達早期參與創辦的教育科技公司 Coursera 美股上市，首日大漲 36.36%。"}]}]},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"9 年磨一劍，Coursera 上市首日股價大漲"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"美國時間 3 月 31 日，教育科技公司 Coursera 正式在紐交所上市，股票代碼：COUR。該股開盤價定爲 39 美元\/股，截至上市當日收盤，股價上漲至 45 美元\/股，漲幅達 36.36%。目前，Coursera 的股價爲 45.78 美元\/股（來自 4 月 1 日最新的收盤信息），總市值達 59.64 億美元（約合 391.5 億元人民幣）。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Coursera 由美國斯坦福大學計算機科學教授吳恩達（Andrew Ng）和 Daphne Koller 共同創辦，總部位於加利福尼亞州山景城。Coursera 與斯坦福大學、密歇根大學、普林斯頓大學、賓夕法尼亞大學等世界頂尖大學合作，爲用戶提供各種免費和付費的在線課程。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Coursera 的 IPO 招股說明書顯示，截至 2020 年 12 月 31 日，共有超過 150 所大學通過 Coursera 平臺提供了 4000 多門課程，涉及數據科學、技術、商業、衛生、社會科學以及藝術與人文科學等多個領域；有超過 50 個行業合作伙伴通過 Coursera 平臺提供了 600 多門課程，涉及數據科學、技術和商業領域。此外，Coursera 還與大學合作制定學位課程，學校通過 Coursera 平臺和技術來教授課程，學生通過在線學習的方式獲取相應學位。截至 2020 年 12 月 31 日，Coursera 上共有超過 20 個學位課程。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"公開信息顯示，Coursera 創立時間爲 2012 年 4 月，至今剛好 9 年。雖然成立年頭不短，但相比國內的在線教育公司而言，Coursera 的發展速度並不算快，財務狀況也不容樂觀。招股說明書顯示，2019 年和 2020 年，Coursera 的淨虧損分別爲 4670 萬美元和 6680 萬美元。截至 2020 年底，Coursera 自成立以來的累計赤字爲 3.436 億美元。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"融資方面，2020 年 7 月，Coursera 融資 1.3 億美元，估值爲 26 億美元。2019 年，該公司完成了 E 輪 1.03 億美元融資，Seek Group 領投，Future Fund 和 NEA 跟投。該輪融資過後，Coursera 估值超過 10 億美元，成爲全球新晉獨角獸。此前，Coursera 共計完成了 2.1 億美元融資，其中 D 輪融資的金額爲 6400 萬美元。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"不過值得一提的是，在去年新冠疫情的影響和推動下，Coursera 進入了發展的快車道。Coursera 發佈的招股書顯示，2020 年，Coursera 的校園平臺 Coursera for Campus 增速迅猛，有 130 多家高校向 Coursera 的客戶支付校園費用。此外，在疫情期間，Coursera 還與 70 個國家和美國 30 個州 \/ 城市的 330 多個政府機構合作，幫助政府爲失業工人提供免費的商業、技術課程，以此實現勞動力復甦。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"良好的發展勢頭爲 Coursera 的收入帶來了明顯增速。2020 年，Coursera 收入爲 2.935 億美元，與 2019 年的 1.844 億美元相比，增幅達 59％。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"據 MarketWatch 報道，Coursera 首席財務官 Ken Hahn 在接受採訪時表示，COVID-19 大流行不僅加速了 Coursera 的業務發展，還加快了該公司的上市計劃。“人們沒辦法出門，只能在 Coursera 上在線學習課程。”“我們的上市計劃本來是打算在某個時候公開的，但我們看到世界在變化，這些變化加快了我們的步伐。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"雖未全職參與該公司運營，但吳恩達的課程一直是 Coursera 上最受歡迎的課程，沒有之一。上市當日，Coursera 兩位創始人吳恩達、Daphne Koller，以及首席執行官 Jeff Maggioncalda 共同敲鐘。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"吳恩達也在招股書中表示，Coursera 的首要目標一直都是爲學習者服務。“當前世界面臨諸多挑戰，包括疫情、貧困、失業、不平等和偏見等。雖然教育不是萬靈藥，但它是應對這些挑戰最有效的力量之一。”“我們目睹了數十億人在疫情期間的掙扎。在學校，許多學習者和教師還沒有做好將學習轉移到網上的準備。在工作中，數字化加速正威脅着許多工作，人們的技能很容易迅速過時。令人震驚的破壞規模凸顯了全球教育體系現代化的必要性。負責創造公平競爭環境的人現在認識到，在線學習將是爲個人提供所需技能和促進社會公平的有力手段。”"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"heading","attrs":{"align":null,"level":2},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"“AI 大神”吳恩達的創業之路"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"曾任谷歌大腦創始人、百度首席科學家的吳恩達，在人工智能領域可以說是聲名遠揚。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"2017 年 3 月，吳恩達離開百度後宣佈正式走上創業之路，作爲業內的“明星人物”，吳恩達的一舉一動都會引起行業的強烈關注。從他宣佈創業以來到今天已經快四年了，這段時間裏，他先後成立了三家人工智能相關的公司、基金會：deeplearning.ai、Landing.ai、AI Fund，以及加入了自己老婆的自動駕駛公司 Drive.ai。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"這些公司現在如何了呢？InfoQ 給大家做了一個簡單的梳理："}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"deeplearning.ai 說是一家創業公司，倒不如說是吳恩達在線 AI 教育平臺 Coursera 的一個分支，吳恩達之前推出的“AI for everyone”課程就發佈在這個網站；"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.infoq.cn\/resource\/image\/18\/2d\/18660d769dff84be0aab678b3f33122d.png","alt":null,"title":"","style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":"","fromPaste":false,"pastePass":false}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"2018 年初成立的 AI Fund 原本旨在持續關注並加速各類職業教育解決方案的項目，目前官方網站列出了部分投資項目，去掉與吳恩達相關聯的項目，確實投的不算多。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.infoq.cn\/resource\/image\/77\/18\/77b21e52ce224225aec33d4aa685db18.jpeg","alt":null,"title":"","style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":"","fromPaste":false,"pastePass":false}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"與前面兩家公司的性質不同，Landing.ai 是一家實打實的人工智能公司，對外提供 AI 解決方案。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"Landing.ai 希望利用 AI 技術助力企業轉型，Landing.ai 推出的第一款解決方案是 Landing Light，這是一種自動化的視覺檢測工具，利用 AI 技術可以比人工檢查員和自動光學檢測（AOI）機器更準確地發現問題，Light 還生成可視化和分析，以優化製造流程和產品質量。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"疫情期間，Landing AI 還在其官方博客平臺上發佈了一款社交距離監控工具，其中包含一個演示視頻，基於公開街景數據集 The Oxford Town Centre 展示了新的社交距離探測器，旨在讓行人彼此之間保持至少兩米的距離，儘可能減少新冠病毒的傳播。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"image","attrs":{"src":"https:\/\/static001.infoq.cn\/resource\/image\/23\/59\/2366aa910a168312f7bd1b3ca285fa59.png","alt":null,"title":"","style":[{"key":"width","value":"75%"},{"key":"bordertype","value":"none"}],"href":"","fromPaste":false,"pastePass":false}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"而吳恩達與妻子開的“夫妻店”Drive.ai 則於 2019 年被蘋果公司收購。這次收購在一些業內人士看來，更像是蘋果的一次“自救”行動，畢竟蘋果自動駕駛一直被寄予厚望，但又表現不佳，如果再不採取一些措施，蘋果可能就真的趕不上自動駕駛這趟車了。而對於吳恩達來說，Drive.ai 只是其職業生涯裏的一段小插曲。"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null}},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","marks":[{"type":"strong"}],"text":"參考鏈接："}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/coursera-stock-jumps-20-out-of-the-gate-on-first-day-of-trade-11617208139"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1651562\/000119312521071525\/d65490ds1.htm"}]},{"type":"paragraph","attrs":{"indent":0,"number":0,"align":null,"origin":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"《"},{"type":"link","attrs":{"href":"https:\/\/www.infoq.cn\/article\/1BaVpmEry4SA0zLRpNCX","title":"xxx","type":null},"content":[{"type":"text","text":"離開百度三年多，吳恩達終於要收穫第一個 IPO，Coursera 或於明年上市"}]},{"type":"text","text":"》"}]}]}