Biography | Jeff Maggioncalda — Coursera Named Him CEO at This Evelyn Avenue Building

People treat Coursera as a Stanford-professor startup that always had a finance chief executive.

The dated handover is 13 June 2017.

VentureBeat, the Wall Street Journal, and EdSurge all published the appointment that Tuesday.

Jeff Maggioncalda replaced Rick Levin, the former Yale president who had run Coursera since 2014.

MarketScreener later listed his start date as 12 June 2017.

The announcement day is the one used here.

The office the filings kept using is 381 East Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, a 1987 Class A block in the Mountain View Corporate Center.

OpenStreetMap still labels the building Coursera.

A Commons photograph taken on 30 October 2022 shows the same address while the company still called it home.

Later SEC mail stopped at 2440 West El Camino Real.

This pin is the Evelyn Avenue building from the year he took the job, not a current desk and not a house.

The same week Coursera closed a 64 million dollar Series D.

He had spent 1996 to early 2015 as founding chief executive of Financial Engines.

Coursera listed on the New York Stock Exchange as COUR on 31 March 2021 at 33 dollars a share.

He left the chief-executive chair in early 2025.

The public appointment belongs to this lot on Evelyn.

Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Portrait: U.S. Department of Education, public domain, 14 December 2017.