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Okay, great. Thank you. Professor Gaga, for this opportunity. Very interesting one. That that, um So Thio answer your your 23 part question. First of all, I grew up in a very international atmosphere. Um, well, I was born in France, Uh, and at the age of five, my my father took the whole family thio Santa Barbara, California, Um, and to become a professor s. So, you know, I was born in France, raised in in California. I really got an international field for life. I would come back Thio to Europe every summer, and that was always really fun. I was always knew I want to have international career though I was trained and did my education in a in California in my university, I went to university in Santa Barbara. I did my MBA, um, at Thunder board and and Phoenix in Arizona. I always had this, uh, this passion for going international and also as a professor's kid education was always very important. Technology was always very important. Eso after my career, after studying, I always wanted to be in technology. Not that the technical side, but the outside. You know, I'm a business guy um So I worked a lot in selling technologies. ATT's first My my career was in the US, but through my MBA that didn't exchange in in, uh, in France, Another very good school called HTC. Um, right. So I've been in Europe for last 15 years, mostly selling technology, But my passion has always been education, and I've always been looking for a way to combine both. Um and I had this opportunity After having many corporate jobs about four years ago, a zai moved. I eventually made my way Thio Zurich, Switzerland, on the international path. And I had this opportunity four years ago to kind of quit, uh, selling technology and, uh, to combine my passion for education and and technology. Just a long, you know, long story short. We found out about the coding academy in the U. S. I know they're really big. Maybe most many of your students have heard of them. Eso I ended up in Zurich about 10 years ago, and we found out that we looked around and we noticed that there were no coding or data science academies in Switzerland, and that's when it clicked. So four years ago, we started propulsion Academy, um, again, Combining it was a perfect fit for me. We teach technology and its education is very practical. It's for people that mostly already have degrees. So, yeah, that's what led me, really to where I am today in the shortest E could talk about it for another couple hours, but I was trying to hit the key spots.
when we first started four years ago, Uh, we offered to court programs. The first one is called Full Stack Development or what Development? We teach you how to become a software developer. The second one is data science again. Um, this is 12. These air 12 week course is both of them full time, right? Uh, and they're designed for you to give to get a job in these fields. Once you've completed the course, right? So 12 weeks full time, we expect you to spend 60 to 70 hours a week in the classroom, Usually our courses or in person. But of course, with co vid we had to adapt our model eso in Switzerland there was a little different than the US we've gone from in person to online, back to in person. And now we're back to online, uh, way with our academy. We we we did both, right, So at one point, we were doing a half class one day, half class the other day, So um yeah, it's a mixture on DNA now with covert. Also, there is a huge opportunity. We now offer our clothes, our classes, fully remote eso for somebody that living in Switzerland or in Spain can take our program fully online. And it's also lead us to offer more courses. But for experienced professionals so now we also in terms of our core programs. We also offer courses on Python that Aaron Short you know, short term, part time format. We offer courses on AI for leaders. SQL We're going to some new Blockchain. So, Cove, it has been a huge opportunity. Um and yeah. So again, our core programs, 12 weeks. But then we have another available fully on fully remote, and now we do specialized courses for industry professionals.
That's an excellent question with our value added is our relationship that we have with industry. Um, so we are extremely close to the industry for two reasons. One and industry hires are students. So we get, you know, then we get everything a lot for through our students. Second of all, half our courses are taught by external instructors from industry. Um, so this make sure that we're tuned to everything that happens, and we can adapt our curriculum accordingly and fast. The thing about being a coding academy, that's great. Um, is you know, we're independent, so weaken, weaken, go. We can change things really, really fast. Um, if if the next program is cyber security, we can create a third program as long as we see demand for it. But again, our value added is how quickly we adapt